Roman Authors

Third-century AD Stoic philosopher and emperor, wrote Meditations

Third and second-century BC playwright, wrote The Pot of Gold, The Swaggering Soldier, other comedies

First-century AD philosopher, wrote Moral Epistles, tragedies, assorted Stoic dialogues and letters

First and second-century AD historian, wrote Annals of Imperial Rome, Histories, Agricola, Germania

First-century BC politician, wrote Commentaries on the Gallic War, Commentaries on the Civil War

Fifth and sixth-century AD philosopher and political advisor, wrote The Consolation of Philosophy

First-century BC and first-century AD poet, wrote Metamorphoses, Art of Love, Tristia

First-century BC poet, wrote Aeneid, Georgics, Eclogues

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

First-century BC author of short poems, especially those of yearning for his mistress, Lesbia

First-century BC lyric poet and satirist, wrote Odes

First-century AD rhetoritician who wrote textbook on oratory

Prolific first-century BC author of philosophical treatises, letters, and speeches, including On the Republic, On the Laws, Against Verres, and Against Catiline

Second-century AD poet, wrote especially caustic Satires

Fourth-century AD historian, wrote history of the late Empire, only accounts of 353-378 AD survive

First-century BC historian, wrote Catiline's War and the Jugurthine War

First and second-century AD historian, wrote The Twelve Caesars

First-century BC Epicurean philosopher, wrote long, atheistic poem On the Nature of Things