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Life Gnaeus Naevius was born a Roman citizen in either Rome or Campania. His year of birth is unknown, but it was likely around 270 BCE, since he was old enough…

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,…

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…

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,…

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…