Principal Roman Authors (all dates BC unless otherwise noted)

Plautus died c. 184 B.C. 21 plays

Ennius 239-169 plays, various poems including

and epic, Annales (none of Ennius's works

survive in full)

Terence 190-159 6 plays

Cato 234-149 De agricultura, speeches (now lost),

Origines (a history of Rome; now lost)

Cornelius Nepos c. 110-24 biographies

Cicero 106-43 Speeches, most notably 4 speeches against

Catiline, philosophical and rhetorical works,

letters

Julius Caesar 100-44 De Bello Gallico, De Bello Civili

Lucretius 94-55 (?) De rerum natura

Catullus 84-54 (?) 116 poems

Sallust 86-35 Bellum Catilinae, Bellum

Iugurthinum, Historiae

Vergil 70-19 Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid

Horace 65-8 Odes, Epodes, Satires,

Epistles, inc. Ars Poetica

Livy 59 BC-AD 17 (?) Ab urbe condita

Tibullus c. 55-19 BC 2 books of Elegies

Propertius 50-2 BC 4 books of Elegies

Ovid 43 BC- AD 17 Amores, Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, Heroides, Fasti, Tristia, Epistulae ex

Ponto, other poems

Seneca AD 1-65 9 tragedies, philosophical

letters and discourses

Petronius 1st century AD Satyricon

Martial AD 40-104 12 books of epigrams

Tacitus AD 56-115 Annales, Historiae,

Agricola, Germania

Juvenal early 2nd cent. AD 16 satires

Suetonius early 2nd cent. AD biographies of 12 Caesars

Apuleius late 2nd cent. AD Metamorphoses, other works

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Roman Authors