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Marcus Tullius Cicero
106-43 BC
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| The most influential Latin prose author, wrote letters, political orations, philisophical works. Repressed plot by Cataline |
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Gaius Julius Caesar
100-44 BC
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| Formed the first triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus, became consul in 59 BC. Wrote the Commentarii de Bello Gallico and the Commentarii de Bello Civili |
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
86-35 BC |
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| Early career in politics. Most known for Bellum Catalinae and Bellum Jugurthinum |
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| Historian, known for his Ab Urbe Condita, a complete history of the Roman Empire, mostly stories and legends. |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
1 BC- 65 AD |
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| Politician and tutor/advisor to emperor Nero. Works include letters, speeches, tragedies, geography, treatsies, and satires. |
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Gaius Petronius Arbiter
27-66 AD |
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| Defined as the minister of culture, his work the Satyricon is mostly lost. |
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| Authored Historia Naturalis, a natural history encyclopedia. |
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Pliny the Younger
61-112 AD |
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| Adopted by Pliny the Elder,served as a Legate and a Consul. Wrote Epistulae and Panegyricus. |
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Publius/Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
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| Known for his works the Historia, Annales, and De Vita Agricolae |
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
71-135 AD |
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| Known for his De Vita Caesarum, a biography of the emrerors Caesar through Domitian |
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| Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius were the ____ age of Latin Literature |
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