Acta Diurna, Roman Newspaper: Latin II Project: Home

Back to Minuteman HS Library Media Center Home Page

"The Acta diurna (also called Acta populi, or Acta publica), said to date from before 59 BCE, recorded official business and matters of public interest. Under the empire (after 27 BCE), the Acta diurna constituted a type of daily gazette, and thus it was, in a sense, the prototype of the modern newspaper."

Quoted from: "Acta." Britannica Library, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3 Mar. 2015. libraries.state.ma.us/. Accessed 26 Apr. 2022. Image: "Acta Diurna." Photograph. Comm 455 / History of Journalism. historyofjournalism.onmason.com/2016/02/23/roman-contributions-to-journalism-the-acta/. Accessed 26 April 2022.

To navigate this resource guide use the tabs at the top of the page.