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Literary People Flashcards

1
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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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7
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first Latin writer to adapt Greek hexameter for Latin

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Quintus Ennius

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8
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comic playwright with 20 extant plays

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Plautus

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9
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Rome’s first prose writer

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Cato the Elder

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10
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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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13
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comic playwright friends with Scipio Aemilianus

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Terence

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14
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poet of the Epicurean philosophy

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Lucretius

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15
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took a love potion that made him insane, committed suicide

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Lucretius

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16
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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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17
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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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20
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Where was Cicero born?

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Arpinum

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21
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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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23
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When did Cicero die?

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43 BC

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24
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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

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Sallust

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author of Bellum Jugurthinum, praising Marius’s war on Numidia

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Sallust

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author of Historiae, covering 78-67 BC

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Sallust

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28
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author of Commentarii de Bello Gallico, which is 7 books

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Julius Caesar

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29
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author of Commentarii de Bello Civili, which is only 3 books

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Julius Caesar

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30
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author of the Eclogues, 10 pastoral poems

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Virgil

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31
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author of the Aeneid

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Virgil

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32
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author of the Georgics, a poem 4 books long

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Virgil

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33
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author of De Architectura, dedicated to Augustus

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Vitruvius

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34
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poet author of Saturae/Sermones

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Horace

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35
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poet author of 4 books of Odes

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Horace

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36
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Who influenced Horace?

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Lucilius

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37
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author of Ab Urbe Condita, 142 books long

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Livy

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38
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poet who wrote Elegies, love poems to Cynthius

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Propertius

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39
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author of Delia and Nemesis

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Tibullus

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40
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only female poet, 6 poems

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Sulpicia

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41
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banished to Tomi

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Ovid

42
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What caused Ovid’s exile?

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a song and an error

43
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author of the Metamorphoses

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Ovid

44
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author of Ars Amatoria

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Ovid

45
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author of a Greek history of the Etruscans

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Claudius

46
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called Rhetor

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Seneca the Elder

47
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Stoic philosopher

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Seneca the Younger

48
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Where was Seneca the Younger born?

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Cordoba

49
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author of the Apocolocyntosis

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Seneca the Younger

50
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author of Epistulae Morales, 124 letters to Lucilius

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Seneca the Younger

51
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satirist born in Cisalpine Gaul

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Persius

52
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author of Historia Naturalis, which is 37 books

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Pliny the Elder

53
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author of a history of the German wars in 20 books

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Pliny the Elder

54
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satirist friend of Lucan

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Persius

55
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rhetorician author of Institutio Oratoria, 12 books on the perfect orator

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Quintilian

56
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“the supreme guide of wayward youth”

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Quintilian

57
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epic poet member of the Pisonian conspiracy

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Lucan

58
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quaestor under Nero

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Lucan

59
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nephew to Seneca the Younger

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Lucan

60
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author of the Pharsalia

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Lucan

61
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consul under Nero

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Gaius Petronius

62
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arbiter elegentiae

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Gaius Petronius

63
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author member of the Pisonian conspiracy

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Gaius Petronius

64
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poet author of the Thebaid, epic poem in 12 books

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Statius

65
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author of Punica, 17 books on the Second Punic War

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Silius Italicus

66
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worst Latin poet

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Silius Italicus

67
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author of Liber Spectaculorum

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Martial

68
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author of approximately 1500 epigrams in 14 books

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Martial

69
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author of Annals from 14-68 AD in 18 books

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Tacitus

70
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author of Dialogus de Oratoribus

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Tacitus

71
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author of Historiae from 69-96 AD in 12 books

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Tacitus

72
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satirist who wrote 16 satires

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Juvenal

73
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banished to Egypt

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Juvenal

74
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author governor of Bithynia

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Pliny the Younger

75
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author of 10 books of letters

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Pliny the Younger

76
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author of letter on Vesuvius’s eruption

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Pliny the Younger

77
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author of letter about a haunted house in Athens

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Pliny the Younger

78
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author of De Viris Illustribus, biographies of literary figures

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Nepos, Suetonius, Jerome

79
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author of De Vita Caesarum, about the lives of the Caesars

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Suetonius

80
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accused of winning his wife by magic

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Apuleius

81
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author of Apologia/De Mage

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Apuleius

82
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author of The Golden Ass/Metamorphoses

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Apuleius

83
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author of Cupid and Psyche

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Apuleius

84
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author of Attic Nights

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Aulus Gellius

85
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stoic author of On Duty

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Panaetius

86
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Scipionic Circle

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Laelius, Lucilius, Panaetius, Terence

87
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most prolific Latin tragedian

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Accius

88
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first writer of satire

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Ennius

89
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first famous satirist, 30 books

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Lucilius

90
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first classic orator

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Gaius Gracchus

91
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greatest Asianist orator

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Hortalus

92
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greatest Atticist orator

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Calvus

93
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clients of Messala

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Ovid, Tibullus

94
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clients of Maecenas

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Horace, Propertius, Virgil

95
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quinquennial contest of song, music, poetry, and oratory

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Neronia, 60 AD

96
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author of De Aquis Urbis Romae, 4 books on water engineering

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Frontinus

97
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author of Stratagemata, 4 books on miliary anecdotes

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Frontinus

98
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first major Christian Latin writer

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Tertullian

99
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author of an eighth book of the Gallic Wars

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Hirtius

100
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commentator on Terence and Virgil

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Jerome

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