Latin Literature Authors

Choose an author who wrote history during the Ciceronian Period.

• Tacitus

• Suetonius

• Cicero

• Sallust

Choose an author who wrote a letter about his uncle during the eruption of Vesuvius.

• Cicero

• Pliny the Younger

• Pliny the Elder

• Petronius

Choose an author who was both a philosopher AND an emperor.

• Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Publius Ovidius Naso

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Marcus Aurelius

Choose an author who wrote philosophy, letters, and speeches.

• Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Pliny the Younger

• Marcus Aurelius

Choose an author who wrote comedies during the Early Period.

• Tacitus

• Plautus

• Livy

• Catullus

Choose the author who wrote the epic, The Aeneid.

• Ovid

• Lucan

• Petronius

• Vergil

Choose the author who wrote a satire about a lavish and extravagant dinner.

• Pliny the Younger

• Pliny the Elder

• Petronius

• Juvenal

Choose an author who wrote satire during the Silver Age.

• Ovid

• Juvenal

• Suetonius

• Tacitus

Choose an author who was exiled from Rome for a poem and a mistake.

• Ovid

• Juvenal

• Petronius

• Tacitus

Choose an author who wrote biographies about all the Caesars.

• Sallust

• Suetonius

• Horace

• Terence