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Newer Writers Flashcards

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Seneca

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Julio Claudian Writer
Nero’s former tutor/advisor
Tragedies

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Lucan

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Julio Claudian Writer
Seneca’s Nephew
Epic Poet (eliminates role of gods in epic)

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Petronius

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Julio Claudian Writer
committed suicide
Satyricon includes Dinner Party of Trimalchio

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Pliny the Elder

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Flavian Writer-Prose
Encyclopedic writer
Died when Mt. Vesuvius erupted

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Quintilian

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Flavian Writer-Prose
educational theorist
1st to hold imperial professorship of rhetoric @ Rome

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Statius

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Flavian Writer-Poetry
under Domitian
Silvae is praise poetry to Domitian

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Martial

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Flavian Writer-Poetry
epigrams
satirize society

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Pliny the Younger

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Trajan and Hadrian Writer
nephew/adopted son of Pliny the Elder
orator
panegyric praise of Trajan
famous for letters
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Tacitus

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Trajan and Hadrian Writer
wrote history from Nero through the Flavians
friend of Pliny the Younger

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Apuleius

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Trajan and Hadrian Writer
under Antonius Pius and Marcus Aurelius
Orator
wrote metamorphosis (golden ass)

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Julio Claudian Writers

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Seneca
Lucan
Petronius

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Flavian Writers

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Prose:
Pliny the Elder
Quintilian
Poetry:
Statius
Martial
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Trajan and Hadrian Writers

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Pliny the Younger
Tacitus
Suetonius
Juvenal
Apuleius
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