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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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