Flashcards: Golden Age Latin writers

Gaius Licinius Macer (died 66 BC) was an official and annalist of ancient Rome.

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

Sulpicia was the name of two Roman women reputed in antiquity as poets.

Cornelius Nepos (/kɔːrˈniːliəs ˈniːpɒs, ˈnɛpɒs/; c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer.

Albius Tibullus (/tɪˈbʌləs/; c. 55 BC – 19 BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.

Sabinus (d. AD 14 or 15) was a Latin poet and friend of Ovid.

Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus (28 May 82 BC – c. 47 BC) was an orator and poet of ancient Rome.

Publius Nigidius Figulus (c. 98 – 45 BC) was a scholar of the Late Roman Republic and one of the praetors for 58 BC.

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

Titus Cassius Severus (died in 32 AD) was an ancient Roman rhetor from the gens Cassia.

Marcus Furius Bibaculus (103 BC – ? BC), was a Roman poet, who flourished during the last century of the Republic.

Publius Terentius Varro Atacinus (/ˈværoʊ/; 82 BC – c. 35 BC) was a Roman poet, more polished in his style than the more famous and learned Varro Reatinus, his contemporary, and therefore more widely read by the Augustan writers.

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

Aemilius Macer of Verona was a Roman didactic poet.

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (/maɪˈsiːnəs/; 15 April 68 BC – 8 BC) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian (who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil.

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.

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

Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC.

Granius Flaccus (active in the 1st century BC) was an antiquarian and scholar of Roman law and religion, probably in the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus.

Cornificia (c. 85 BC – c. 40 BC) was a Roman poet and writer of epigrams of the 1st century BC.

Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age.

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

Marcus Actorius Naso seems to have written a life of Julius Caesar, or a history of his times, which is quoted by Suetonius.

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

Lucius Varius Rufus (/ˈvɛəriəs, ˈvær-/; c. 74 – 14 BC) was a Roman poet of the Augustan age.

Titus Lucretius Carus (/ˈtaɪtəs lʊˈkriːʃəs/; c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher.