Transcript Roman Writers

Roman Writers
Project by Kali Peragine
Virgil
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(Publius Vergilius Maro )
Wrote the Aeneid, which was about Rome’s
founding, on a commission from Emperor
Augustus.
Catullus
 Lived from 84 B.C. to 54 B.C.
and wrote many love poems
and other poems against
those he opposed.
Tacitus
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(Publius Cornelius Tacitus )
Roman historian that
documented several Roman
Emperors after Augustus through
his books Annals and Histories.
Cato the Elder
 Also called the Censor whose
only remaining work is De
Agricultura. He supported
strict laws traditional Roman
ways of thinking.
Cicero

(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Famous Roman orator and
lawyer who also wrote books on
laws, gods, and the republic also.
Juvenal
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 Satirist who coined
the phrase panem et
circenses, or bread
and circuses, to
describe the Roman
people seemed most
interested in.
Ovid

(Publius Ovidius Naso)
Poet who wrote Metamorphoses
and Fasti, which were,
respectively, about myths
involving transformations and
religious events.
Horace
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Wrote satires and other books
criticizing society as well as poems
not relating to politics. Odes was his
most famous work and it was about
common customs.
Seneca the Younger
Annaeus Seneca)

Famous Stoic writer who wrote
Oedipus, Hercules Furnes, and
Troades.
(Lucius
Pliny the Younger
(Gaius Plinius
Caecilius Secundus)
 Recounted Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in a letter
and went on to hold several notable jobs.
Work Cited
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0857352.html
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http://www.vroma.org/~jhaughto/Roman_authors.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_younger
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