Phaedrus
Life Phaedrus is traditionally said to be a Thracian slave who flourished in the first half of the first century CE. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown,…
Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was an eminent philosopher in Neronian Rome. He is often named Seneca the Younger (Seneca Minor) in English works to distinguish him from his father, Seneca the…
Sallust
Life Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust in English) was born in 86 BCE at Amiternum (near modern San Vittorino). He came to Rome, as most do, to rise through the cursus honorum,…
Pacuvius
Life Marcus Pacuvius was born at Brundisium around 220 BCE. According to Pliny the Elder, he was the son of Ennius' sister and a Romanized Oscan. He was part of…
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer (or Terence in English) is a second-century BCE playwright, and the last of the three great Roman comic playwrights after Plautus and Caecilius Statius. Life We know…
Lucilius
Life Gaius Lucilius was a Latin satirist, considered by some to be the father of satire. He was born in 180 BCE in Campania at Suessa Aurunca. He served under…
Cornelius Nepos
Life Cornelius Nepos (praenomen unknown) was a Roman chronologist and biographer born ca. 110 (though some have placed his birth closer to 90 or 80) in Mediolanum (modern Milan), the…
Pompeius Trogus
Life Pompeius Trogus was a Roman historian who was likely born around 60 BCE. Very little information is known about his life. His grandfather fought against Q. Sertorius under the…
Columella
Life Very little is known of Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella. He was born in Gades (modern Cádiz, Spain), and was a contemporary of Seneca the Younger. He seems to have…
Corinna
Corinna (Greek: Κόριννα, Korinna) is an ancient Greek poet from Tanagra. Though once of considerable repute—she was hailed as the ninth Muse by Antipater of Thessalonica—her poetry fell into obscurity…