Stoic philosopher (1st cent. AD), tutor to Nero.

Leading lyric poet of Augustus’ age, famous for the Odes.

African Roman playwright who adapted Greek comedies; six of his plays survive.

Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura.

Roman lawyer and magistrate, whose Letters are of great historical value.

Member of Maecenas’ circle, author of the Aeneid.

Poet of the Satires (late 1st–early 2nd cent. AD).

Augustan elegiac poet, friend of Gallus and Vergil, protege of Maecenas.

Historian and politician, author of Annals and Histories.

Neoteric poet, famous for witty and emotional poems.

Poet of the Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria.

Historian, supporter of Julius Caesar, influenced by Thucydides.

Playwright of the Old Latin period (3rd cent. BC); 20 comedies survive.

Author of Noctes Atticae, a collection of notes on various subjects.

Historian, close friend of Pliny the Younger, wrote Lives of the Caesars.

Numidian author of the Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass).

Poet and philosopher, author of De Rerum Natura on Epicureanism.

Orator and prose author; only his Commentaries survive.

Historian of the Augustan age, author of Ab Urbe Condita.