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Life Titus Calpunius Siculus was a bucolic poet of the Neronian age. Nothing else is known about him with certainty, though some have tried to link him to (or tried…

Life Very little is known about Titus Lucretius Carus except as that he was an author of a single work, the De Rerum Natura, a poem on Epicurean beliefs.  Nothing…

Life Titus Maccius Plautus was born in Umbria before 250 BCE. He supposedly emigrated to Rome to start up a shipping business and write plays on the side to earn extra…

Life Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Younger or Plinius Minor to distinguish him from Pliny the Elder, his uncle and adoptive parent, was a prominent first…

Life Lucius Accius was born around 170 BCE in Pisaurum to a freedman. His early life is unknown, though he was said to have steered clear of a legal career.…

Life Annaeus Seneca, often called Maior (“the Elder”) to differentiate him from his more popular son Seneca the Younger, was born in Corduba, Hispania (mod. Cordova, Spain) in the middle of…

Life Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (in English mostly as Quintilian, but also incorrectly spelled Quintillian or Quinctilian) was born around 35 CE at Calagurris in Hispania (now Calahorra, Spain). His works…

Life Gaius Valerius Catullus was born in Verona into a fairly prominent equestrian family. Jerome records that he was born in 87 BCE and died in his thirtieth year (which,…