Flashcards: Latin poetry

Publius Valerius Cato (flourished 1st century BC) was a grammarian and poet of the Roman Republic.

Hucbald (Hucbaldus, Hubaldus) (c. 840 or 850 – June 20, 930) was a Frankish music theorist, composer, teacher, writer, hagiographer, and Benedictine monk.

Hilarius (fl. 1125) was a Latin poet who is supposed to have been an Englishman.

Hermann of Reichenau (July 18, 1013 – September 24, 1054), also called Hermannus Contractus or Hermannus Augiensis or Herman the Cripple, was a Roman Catholic 11th-century scholar, composer, music theorist, mathematician, and astronomer.

Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Saint Sidonius Apollinaris (November 5 of an unknown year, c. 430 – August 489 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican priest.

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

Avianus (c. AD 400) a Latin writer of fables, identified as a pagan.

Saint Angilbert (c. 760 – 18 February 814), sometimes known as Angilberk or Engelbert, was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law.

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.

Titus Calpurnius was a Roman bucolic poet.

The Archpoet (c. 1130 – c. 1165), or Archipoeta (in Latin and German), is the name given to an anonymous 12th century author of ten medieval Latin poems, the most famous being his "Confession" found in the Carmina Burana manuscript (under CB 191).

Stjepan "Stijepo" Gradić or Stefano Gradi (Latin: Stephanus Gradius; March 6, 1613 – May 2, 1683) was a philosopher, scientist and a patrician of the Republic of Ragusa.

Lieuwe (Leo) van Aitzema (19 November 1600 – 23 February 1669) was a Dutch historian, diplomat, bon viveur, philanderer and spy.

Pompeo Colonna (12 May 1479 – 28 June 1532) was an Italian condottiero, politician, and cardinal.

Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 284 – c. 205 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period.

Claudius Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian (/ˈklɔːdiən/; c. 370 – c. 404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho.

Flavius Cresconius Corippus was a late Roman epic poet of the 6th century, who flourished under East Roman Emperors Justinian I and Justin II.

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens was a Roman Christian poet, born in the Roman province of Tarraconensis (now Northern Spain) in 348.

Amalarius (c.775–c.850) was a Frankish prelate and courtier, temporary bishop of Trier (812–13) and Lyon (865–68) and an accomplished liturgist.

Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo (or Strabus, i.e. "squint-eyed") (c. 808 – 18 August 849), was an Alemannic Benedictine monk and theological writer who lived on Reichenau Island.

A sequence (Latin: sequentia) is a chant or hymn sung or recited during the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, before the proclamation of the Gospel.

Alexander Neckam (8 September 1157–31 March 1217) was an English scholar, teacher, theologian and abbot of Cirencester Abbey from 1213 until his death.

Richard James (1592 – December 1638) was an English scholar, poet, and the first librarian of the Cotton library.

Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus, known as Juvencus or Juvenk, was a Roman Spanish Christian and composer of Latin poetry in the 4th century.

Walter of Châtillon (Latinized as Gualterus de Castellione) was a 12th-century French writer and theologian who wrote in the Latin language.

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

Friedrich Dedekind (1524 – February 27, 1598) was a German humanist, theologian, and bookseller.

Alcuin of York (English pronunciation: /ˈalkwɪn/; Latin: Alcuinus; c. 735 – 19 May 804 AD) — also called Ealhwine, Albinus or Flaccus — was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial /ˈmɑːrʃəl/) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.

Notker the Stammerer (Latin: Notcerus Balbulus; c. 840 – 6 April 912 AD), also called Notker I, Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland.

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.

Ermoldus Nigellus or Niger, translated Ermold the Black, or Ermoald, (active between 824–830) was a poet who lived at the court of Pippin of Aquitaine, son of Frankish Emperor Louis I, and accompanied him on a campaign into Brittany in 824.

Avienus was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD.

Gaius Helvius Cinna was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus and Calvus.

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus (c. 470 – February 5, 517 or 519) was a Latin poet and bishop of Vienne in Gaul.

Lambert of Hersfeld (also called Lampert; c. 1028 – 1082/85) was a medieval chronicler.

Bernard of Cluny (or, of Morlaix, Morlay) was a twelfth-century French Benedictine monk, best known as the author of De Contemptu Mundi (On Contempt for the World), a long verse satire in Latin.

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

Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (/ˈpɜːrʃiəs, ˈpɜːrʃəs/; 4 December 34, in Volterra – 24 November 62), was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin.

Peter Abelard (/ˈæb.ə.lɑːrd/; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; French: Pierre Abélard, pronounced: [a.be.laːʁ]; 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician.

Hugh Primas of Orléans was a Latin lyric poet of the 12th century, a scholar from Orléans who was jokingly called Primas, "the Primate", by his friends at the University of Paris.

Magnus Felix Ennodius (473 or 474 – 17 July 521) was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet.

Gaius Petronius Arbiter (/pɪˈtroʊniəs/; c. 27 – 66 AD) was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero.

Theodulf of Orléans (c. 750(/60) – 18 December 821) was a writer, poet and the Bishop of Orléans (c. 798 to 818) during the reign of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.

Terentianus, surnamed Maurus (a native of Mauretania), was a Latin grammarian and writer on prosody who flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century AD.

Elio Lampridio Cervino or Cerva (Latin: Aelius Lampridius Cervinus; 1463–1520) was a Ragusan poet who wrote in Latin.

Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus) (15 November 1511 – 25 September 1536) was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

Poems by Julius Caesar are mentioned by several sources in antiquity.

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

Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (c. 455 – c. 505) of Carthage was a Christian poet who flourished in the latter part of the 5th century.

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

The Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of poems traditionally ascribed as juvenilia of Virgil, although it is likely that all the pieces are in fact spurious.