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Principal Roman Authors

(all dates BC unless otherwise noted)

AUTHOR DATES WORKS
T. Maccius Plautus died c. 184 B.C. 21 plays: most notably Menaechmi, Amphitruo, Aulularia, Mostellaria
Quintus Ennius 239-169 plays, various poems including epic Annales (none Ennius’s works survive in full)
P. Terentius 190-159 6 plays: most notably Eunuchus, Adelphoe
M. Porcius Cato 234-149 De agricultura, speeches (now lost), Origines (a history of Rome; now lost)
Cornelius Nepos c. 110-24 biographies
M. Tullius Cicero 106-43 Speeches, most notably Pro Caelio, 4 speeches In Catilinam; philosophical and rhetorical works, most notably De amicitia, De officiis; letters
C. Iulius Caesar 100-44 De Bello Gallico, De Bello Civili
Titus Lucretius Carus 94-55 (?) De rerum natura
C. Valerius Catullus 84-54 (?) 116 poems
C. Sallustius Crispus 86-35 Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum, Historiae
P. Vergilius Maro 70-19 Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid
Q. Horatius Flaccus 65-8 Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, inc. Ars Poetica
Titus Livius 59 BC-AD 17 (?) Ab urbe condita
Albius Tibullus c. 55-19 BC 2 books of Elegies
Sextus Propertius 50-2 BC 4 books of Elegies
P. Ovidius Naso 43 BC- AD 17 Amores, Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, Heroides, Fasti, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, other poems
L. Annaeus Seneca AD 1-65 9 tragedies, philosophical letters and discourses
Petronius Arbiter 1st century AD Satyricon
M. Valerius Martialis AD 40-104 12 books of epigrams
Cornelius Tacitus AD 56-115 Annales, Historiae, Agricola, Germania
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis early 2nd cent. AD 16 satires
Suetonius Tranquillus early 2nd cent. AD biographies of 12 Caesars
Apuleius late 2nd cent. AD Metamorphoses, other works
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