TY - BOOK AU - Quakenbos John D TI - Illustrated History of ancient literature: Oriental and classical SN - 81-307-0039-5 U1 - 809.03 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Delhi. PB - Cosmo Publications N1 - volume 2 V. Golden age of Grecian Literature (450-330 B.C) continued VI.The Alexandrian period VII. Later Greek Literature Part III Roman Literature I. Latin and its oldest monuments II Dawn of Roman literature III. Golden age of roman literature.(B.C.-80-14 A.D) IV. Age of decline N2 - Literature, in the broadest sense, comprises the written productions of all nations in all ages. It is the permanent expression of the intellectual power of man, and reflects the popular manners, the political condition, the moral and religious status. In its literary productions, a nation bequeaths to posterity an ever-speaking record of its inner life ER -