Roman Authors

Based on the title or description of the work, enter the author's Anglicized name. (e.g. Enter "Ovid" instead of Publius Ovidus Naso.)

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Third-century AD Stoic philosopher and emperor, wrote Meditations	Marcus Aurelius
Third and second-century BC playwright, wrote The Pot of Gold, The Swaggering Soldier, other comedies	Plautus
First-century AD philosopher, wrote Moral Epistles, tragedies, assorted Stoic dialogues and letters	Seneca
First and second-century AD historian, wrote Annals of Imperial Rome, Histories, Agricola, Germania	Tacitus
First-century BC politician, wrote Commentaries on the Gallic War, Commentaries on the Civil War	Julius Caesar
Fifth and sixth-century AD philosopher and political advisor, wrote The Consolation of Philosophy	Boethius
First-century BC and first-century AD poet, wrote Metamorphoses, Art of Love, Tristia	Ovid
First-century BC poet, wrote Aeneid, Georgics, Eclogues	Virgil
First-century BC historian, wrote comprehensive history of Rome from the legendary founding of Latium to Augustus, only a fraction of the complete work has survived	Livy

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First-century BC author of short poems, especially those of yearning for his mistress, Lesbia	Catullus
First-century BC lyric poet and satirist, wrote Odes	Horace
First-century AD rhetoritician who wrote textbook on oratory	Quintilian
Prolific first-century BC author of philosophical treatises, letters, and speeches, including On the Republic, On the Laws, Against Verres, and Against Catiline	Cicero
Second-century AD poet, wrote especially caustic Satires	Juvenal
Fourth-century AD historian, wrote history of the late Empire, only accounts of 353-378 AD survive	Ammianus Marcellinus
First-century BC historian, wrote Catiline's War and the Jugurthine War	Sallust
First and second-century AD historian, wrote The Twelve Caesars	Suetonius
First-century BC Epicurean philosopher, wrote long, atheistic poem On the Nature of Things	Lucretius

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