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translated the Odyssey into Latin (Saturnian verse)

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Livius Andronicus

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wrote fabulae palliatae, Latin comedies from Greek originals

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Livius Andronicus

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Bellum Punicum, an epic poem on the First Punic War (Saturnian verse)

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Gnaeus Naevius

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invented fabulae praetextae, dramas based on Roman subjects

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Gnaeus Naevius

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knew three languages (Latin, Oscan, Greek), and so said he had three hearts

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Quintus Ennius

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author of Annals (history from fall of Rome to his time) in 18 books (dactylic hexameter)

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Quintus Ennius

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first Latin writer to adapt Greek hexameter for Latin

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Quintus Ennius

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comic playwright with 20 extant plays

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Plautus

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Rome’s first prose writer

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Cato the Elder

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first to write Roman history in Latin

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Cato the Elder

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writer of Origines, a lost history of Rome in seven books

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Cato the Elder

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comic playwright with 6 extant plays

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Terence

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comic playwright friends with Scipio Aemilianus

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Terence

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poet of the Epicurean philosophy

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Lucretius

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took a love potion that made him insane, committed suicide

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Lucretius

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author of the didactic epic poem De Rerum Natura, which is six books

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Lucretius

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greatest Latin orator

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Cicero

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18
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When was Cicero consul?

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63 BC

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19
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When was Cicero born?

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106 BC

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Where was Cicero born?

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Arpinum

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author of fourteen Philippics

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Cicero

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22
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Where did Cicero die?

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Formiae

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When did Cicero die?

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43 BC

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author of De Re Publica, which is 6 books

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Cicero

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author of Bellum Catilinae, a monograph on Catiline's conspiracy
Sallust
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author of Bellum Jugurthinum, praising Marius's war on Numidia
Sallust
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author of Historiae, covering 78-67 BC
Sallust
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author of Commentarii de Bello Gallico, which is 7 books
Julius Caesar
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author of Commentarii de Bello Civili, which is only 3 books
Julius Caesar
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author of the Eclogues, 10 pastoral poems
Virgil
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author of the Aeneid
Virgil
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author of the Georgics, a poem 4 books long
Virgil
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author of De Architectura, dedicated to Augustus
Vitruvius
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poet author of Saturae/Sermones
Horace
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poet author of 4 books of Odes
Horace
36
Who influenced Horace?
Lucilius
37
author of Ab Urbe Condita, 142 books long
Livy
38
poet who wrote Elegies, love poems to Cynthius
Propertius
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author of Delia and Nemesis
Tibullus
40
only female poet, 6 poems
Sulpicia
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banished to Tomi
Ovid
42
What caused Ovid's exile?
a song and an error
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author of the Metamorphoses
Ovid
44
author of Ars Amatoria
Ovid
45
author of a Greek history of the Etruscans
Claudius
46
called Rhetor
Seneca the Elder
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Stoic philosopher
Seneca the Younger
48
Where was Seneca the Younger born?
Cordoba
49
author of the Apocolocyntosis
Seneca the Younger
50
author of Epistulae Morales, 124 letters to Lucilius
Seneca the Younger
51
satirist born in Cisalpine Gaul
Persius
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author of Historia Naturalis, which is 37 books
Pliny the Elder
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author of a history of the German wars in 20 books
Pliny the Elder
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satirist friend of Lucan
Persius
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rhetorician author of Institutio Oratoria, 12 books on the perfect orator
Quintilian
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"the supreme guide of wayward youth"
Quintilian
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epic poet member of the Pisonian conspiracy
Lucan
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quaestor under Nero
Lucan
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nephew to Seneca the Younger
Lucan
60
author of the Pharsalia
Lucan
61
consul under Nero
Gaius Petronius
62
arbiter elegentiae
Gaius Petronius
63
author member of the Pisonian conspiracy
Gaius Petronius
64
poet author of the Thebaid, epic poem in 12 books
Statius
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author of Punica, 17 books on the Second Punic War
Silius Italicus
66
worst Latin poet
Silius Italicus
67
author of Liber Spectaculorum
Martial
68
author of approximately 1500 epigrams in 14 books
Martial
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author of Annals from 14-68 AD in 18 books
Tacitus
70
author of Dialogus de Oratoribus
Tacitus
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author of Historiae from 69-96 AD in 12 books
Tacitus
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satirist who wrote 16 satires
Juvenal
73
banished to Egypt
Juvenal
74
author governor of Bithynia
Pliny the Younger
75
author of 10 books of letters
Pliny the Younger
76
author of letter on Vesuvius's eruption
Pliny the Younger
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author of letter about a haunted house in Athens
Pliny the Younger
78
author of De Viris Illustribus, biographies of literary figures
Nepos, Suetonius, Jerome
79
author of De Vita Caesarum, about the lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
80
accused of winning his wife by magic
Apuleius
81
author of Apologia/De Mage
Apuleius
82
author of The Golden Ass/Metamorphoses
Apuleius
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author of Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius
84
author of Attic Nights
Aulus Gellius
85
stoic author of On Duty
Panaetius
86
Scipionic Circle
Laelius, Lucilius, Panaetius, Terence
87
most prolific Latin tragedian
Accius
88
first writer of satire
Ennius
89
first famous satirist, 30 books
Lucilius
90
first classic orator
Gaius Gracchus
91
greatest Asianist orator
Hortalus
92
greatest Atticist orator
Calvus
93
clients of Messala
Ovid, Tibullus
94
clients of Maecenas
Horace, Propertius, Virgil
95
quinquennial contest of song, music, poetry, and oratory
Neronia, 60 AD
96
author of De Aquis Urbis Romae, 4 books on water engineering
Frontinus
97
author of Stratagemata, 4 books on miliary anecdotes
Frontinus
98
first major Christian Latin writer
Tertullian
99
author of an eighth book of the Gallic Wars
Hirtius
100
commentator on Terence and Virgil
Jerome

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