Secondary Authors

Question 1

Sallust

Answer 1

1st Imperial Roman Historian

Analyzed late Republican crisis

Question 2

Nebos

Answer 2

Biographer for famous Greeks and Romans

Especially Atticus

Question 3

Maecenas

Answer 3

Octavian’s friend

Patron of poets including Virgil and Horace

Question 4

Gallus

Answer 4

Love-elegist

Slavery to personal love

Question 5

Strabo

Answer 5

Geographer of Rome

Augustus’s contributions to the Campus Martius

Question 6

Vitruvius

Answer 6

Augustan art and architecture

Question 7

Ovid

Answer 7

First love-elegist

Amatoria- Didactic epic on love

Question 8

Aelius Aristides

Answer 8

Harmonious universal city state
Extend citizenship
Leading provincial
Competition between city-states

Question 9

Tacitus Agricola

Answer 9

Mediterranean influence in Northern Empire

Agriculture and engineering in the empire

Question 10

Fabius Pictor

Answer 10

1st Roman Historian

Question 11

Livius Andronicus

Answer 11

1st Latin Writer

Translated the Odyssey

Question 12

Naevius

Answer 12

Epic on The Punic War

Question 13

Lucilius

Answer 13

Satires

Question 14

Timaeus

Answer 14

1st Greek historian to cover Rome

Question 15

Horace

Answer 15

Epodes

Odes

Question 16

Lucretius

Answer 16

Roman Poet

On the Nature of Things- Epicurean

Question 17

Quintis Tullius Cicero

Answer 17

Brother of THE Cicero

Handbook on political campaiging

Question 18

Polybius

Answer 18

Greek hostage brought to Rome
Wrote based on first hand accounts of war
Wars were fought every year

Question 19

Cato the Elder

Answer 19

Developed early Latin prose

De Agri Cultura- manual on farming

Question 20

Suetonius

Answer 20

Wrote on the life of Caesar

Dismissed by Hadrian (fell out of favor)

Question 21

Appian

Answer 21

Greek historian of Rome

Described Roman destruction of Carthage (Scipio wept)

Question 22

Julius Caesar

Answer 22

Memoirs are his only surviving work

Poet, linguistic theorist, orator and political pamphleteer