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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, he was the son of Ennius‘ sister (though Jerome says grandson) and a Romanized Oscan. He was…

Life Publius Terentius Afer (Terence in English) was born at Carthage around 195 BC. As a child, we was taken to Rome and sold into slavery, where he was educated and…

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 Scipio Africanus…

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 of Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella is known. He was born in Gades (modern Cadiz), and was a contemporary of Seneca the Younger. He seems to have either been raised by…

Corinna (Greek: Κόριννα, Korinna) is an ancient Greek poet from Thebes. Though once of considerable repute—she was hailed as the ninth Muse by Antipater of Thessalonica—her poetry fell into obscurity…

Life Marcus Terentius Varro was born into a plebeian family of equestrian rank in 116 BCE near Reate (mod. Rieti). He studied grammar under L. Aelius Stilo—who also taught Cicero—and later studied in…

Life Publius Cornelius Tacitus was born in the middle of the 50s CE to an equestrian family. His exact location of birth is unknown, though it is likely he was…