Roman Authors - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
First-century BC poet, wrote Aeneid, Georgics, Eclogues Virgil
86%
First-century BC and first-century AD poet, wrote Metamorphoses, Art of Love, Tristia Ovid
81%
Third-century AD Stoic philosopher and emperor, wrote Meditations Marcus Aurelius
79%
First-century BC politician, wrote Commentaries on the Gallic War, Commentaries on the Civil War Julius Caesar
74%
Prolific first-century BC author of philosophical treatises, letters, and speeches, including On the Republic, On the Laws, Against Verres, and Against Catiline Cicero
70%
First and second-century AD historian, wrote Annals of Imperial Rome, Histories, Agricola, Germania Tacitus
61%
First-century AD philosopher, wrote Moral Epistles, tragedies, assorted Stoic dialogues and letters Seneca
52%
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
49%
First and second-century AD historian, wrote The Twelve Caesars Suetonius
49%
First-century BC author of short poems, especially those of yearning for his mistress, Lesbia Catullus
48%
First-century BC lyric poet and satirist, wrote Odes Horace
42%
Third and second-century BC playwright, wrote The Pot of Gold, The Swaggering Soldier, other comedies Plautus
36%
First-century BC Epicurean philosopher, wrote long, atheistic poem On the Nature of Things Lucretius
33%
Second-century AD poet, wrote especially caustic Satires Juvenal
32%
Fifth and sixth-century AD philosopher and political advisor, wrote The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius
28%
First-century BC historian, wrote Catiline's War and the Jugurthine War Sallust
27%
First-century AD rhetoritician who wrote textbook on oratory Quintilian
17%
Fourth-century AD historian, wrote history of the late Empire, only accounts of 353-378 AD survive Ammianus Marcellinus
10%
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