Flashcards: Ancient Roman writers

Pelagonius (4th century) was an influential Latin writer on veterinary medicine, especially on horses.

Aelius Festus Aphthonius was a Latin grammarian of the 4th or 5th century, possibly of African origin, and considered to be one of the most important classical rhetoricians.

Aggenus Urbicus was an ancient Roman technical writer on the science of the Agrimensores, that is, land surveying.

Apuleius (/ˌæpjᵿˈliːəs/; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis and in Berber: Afulay c. 124 – c. 170 AD) was a Latin-language prose writer.

Titus Quinctius Atta (died 77 BC) was a Roman comedy writer, and, like Titinius and Afranius, was distinguished as a writer of fabulae togatae, national comedies.

Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the 4th century AD.

Gratius Faliscus or Grattius was a Roman poet of the age of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD).

Gaius Asinius Pollio (sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo; 75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch.

Marcus Minucius Felix (died c. 250AD in Rome) was one of the earliest of the Latin apologists for Christianity.

Pontius, or Pontius the Deacon, (died in the mid-third century) was a Christian saint and Latin author from Carthage.

Callistratus (Greek: Καλλίστρατος), Greek sophist and rhetorician, probably flourished in the 3rd (or possibly 4th) century AD.

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.

Cornelia Scipionis Africana (c. 190 – c. 100 BC) was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla.

Lucian of Samosata (/ˈluːʃən, ˈluːsiən/; Ancient Greek: Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, Latin: Lucianus Samosatensis; about 125 CE – after 180 CE) was a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic.

Zeno of Verona (Italian: Zenone da Verona; about 300 – 371 or 380) was either an early Christian Bishop of Verona or a martyr.

Marcus Antistius Labeo (d. 10 or 11 CE) was an Ancient Roman jurist of the gens Antistia.

Ptolemaeus Chennus or Chennos ("quail"), of Alexandria (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Χέννος), was a Greek grammarian during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100 CE) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

Hyginus Gromaticus (Gromaticus from groma, a surveying device) was a Latin writer on land-surveying, who flourished in the reign of Trajan (AD 98–117).

Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος; fl. first century AD), Roman fabulist, was a Latin author and versifier of Aesop's fables.

Favorinus of Arelate (c. 80 – c. 160 AD) was a Roman sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.

Tyrannius Rufinus, also called Rufinus of Aquileia (Rufinus Aquileiensis; 340/345–410), was a monk, historian, and theologian.

Quintus Sammonicus Serenus (died 212) was a Roman savant and tutor to Geta and Caracalla who became fatally involved in politics; he was also author of a didactic medical poem, Liber Medicinalis (also known as De medicina praecepta saluberrima), probably incomplete in the extant form, as well as many lost works.

Gaius Maecenas Melissus (/məˈlɪsəs/; fl. 1st century AD) was one of the freedmen of Gaius Maecenas, the noted Roman Augustan patron of the arts.

Commodianus was a Christian Latin poet, who flourished about AD 250.

Faustus of Mileve was a Manichaean bishop of the fourth century.

Athenaeus of Naucratis (/ˌæθəˈniːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 – 103 AD) was one of the most distinguished Roman senators of the late 1st century AD.

Gaius Julius Hyginus (/hᵻˈdʒaɪnəs/; c. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus.

Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.

Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, commonly referred to as Macrobius, was a Roman who flourished during the early fifth century.

Gregory Thaumaturgus or Gregory the Miracle-Worker (Ancient Greek: Γρηγόριος ὁ Θαυματουργός, Grēgórios ho Thaumatourgós; c. AD 213 – 270), also known as Gregory of Neocaesarea, was a Christian bishop of the 3rd century.

Quintus Gargilius Martialis was a third-century Roman writer on horticulture, botany and medicine.

Fenestella (52 BC? – AD 19?) was a Roman historian and encyclopaedic writer.

Antonius Diogenes (Greek: Ἀντώνιος Διογένης) was the author of an ancient Greek romance entitled The Wonders Beyond Thule (Τὰ ὑπὲρ Θoύλην ἄπιστα Apista huper Thoulen).

Bruttedius Niger was a rhetor and politician of the early Roman Empire.

Antonius Rufus was a Latin grammarian who was quoted by the rhetorician Quintilian and the grammarian Velius Longus.

Gaius Matius (fl. 1st century BC) (PW 1) was a citizen of ancient Rome notable as a friend of Cicero and Julius Caesar.

Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος) was a freedman of Publius Licinius Crassus in ancient Rome in the 1st century BCE.

Siculus Flaccus (date uncertain) was an ancient Roman gromaticus (land surveyor), and writer in Latin on land surveying.

Gaius Valgius Rufus, Latin poet, friend of Horace and Maecenas, and suffect consul in 12 BC.

Quintus Antistius Labeo (or Pacuvius Antistius Labeo, died 42 BC) was an Ancient Roman jurist of the gens Antistia.