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| : 1st native roman writer, created bellum punicum = first Punic war in saturnanian verse |
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| : Born in Rudiae, knew three Lang. Latin, Oscan , and Greek (3 hearts) MVP= Annales, 18 books long in diactylic hexameter, the 1st writer to adapt Greek hexameter verse into Latin |
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| : A comic playwright of 130 only 20 survived, 1 more large fragment of vidularia |
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| Concerns jupiters love for alcema, the wife of Amphitryon |
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| The captives: concerns a man named Hegio searching for his lost sons, NO FEMALE CHARACTERS |
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| The twins one of his most successful comedies, two twin brothers find themselves in Syracuse |
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| The Carthigian: contains the only surviving passages of the Carthagian language |
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| Main character helps his master obtain enough money to free a courtesan |
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| Born in Tusculum, fought in the 2nd Punic war, always says " Carthage must be destroyed". 1st prose writer 1st to write roman history in Latin. He wrote Origines a lost work in seven books. De Agri Cultura= hand book to agr. Is the first surviving Latin prose |
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| Born in Carthage was friends with Scipio Aemilianus; wrote 6 plays, died during a trip to Greece |
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| Born in Rome he followed the epicurean philosophy, he took a love potion and went insane and committed suicide. Only surviving work is De Rerum Natura ( the nature of things) the unfinished didactic poem to gaius Memmius it was 6 books long |
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| The greatest Latin orator he was born in arpinum in 106 bc his earliest extant speech was Pro Quinctio, he argued with Hortensius |
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A historian born in 86 B.C
Bellum Catilinae: Caroline's conspiracy
Bellum Jugurthinum: praise Marius in the war against king Jugurtha
Historiae: covered 78 to 67 |
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A lyrical poet born in Verona
fell in love with clodia who was married to Q. Caecilius Metellus (lesbia)
went to Bythinia and was on staff for the governor, Gaius Memmius
he later visited his brothers grave where he then wrote an effigy ( poem 101) |
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Born in Rome in 102 B.C
he followed the attic style
Commentarii de bello Gallico- 7 books from 58 to 52
Hirtius wrote the 8th
Commentarii de bello civili- 3 books |
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Born in Andes near Mantua in 70 B.C
Maecenas became his patron
Eclogues- in 37bc ten poems
Georgics in 29bc 4 books in dactylic hexameter suggested by Maecenas
spent the last 1Yrs of his life on Aeneid
he died in Brundisium in 19bc was buried in Naples
Varius and Tucca were asked to burn it but Augustus ahead them edit it |
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| Wrote De Architectura - which was dedicated to Augustus |
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Born in Venusia in 65 B.C
Vergil introduced him to Maecenas who later gave him a Sabine farm
he wrote his first book of satires in 35bc, 2nd and Epodes in 30bc, and 3 books of odes between 33 & 23 bc
book of Epistles in 20 bc
the Carmen Saeculare in 17 bc
a 4th book of odes and a 2nd Epistles and the Ars Poetica in 15bc he died in 8bc
Saturae(sermons): show superiority of country over city life, friendship, they shoes influence from Lucilius |
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A historian born in patavium in 59bc
Ad Urbe Condita: 142 books long only 21 remain it ends in 9 bc with the death of Drusus |
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Born in assisium in 50bc
fell in love with a woman called Cynthia in poems or Hostia
wrote 4 elegies 1st in 28bc last in 16 bc
Maecenas was his primary patron
Elegies: 1st goes to show his love for Cynthia which turns into despair from her unfaithfulness |
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Born in 48bc belonged to the circle of M.Valerius Messalla
had 2 elegies
Delia: after a woman of which he was in love with( plania could also be her name)
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after his death a 3rd book of poems was published in his name: 6 by Sulpicia<= woman, |
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Coined phrase "On the Greek Kalends", meaning never
wrote autobiography, 14 books long, which is lost
Monumentum Ancyranum: (res Gestae) an account of his public life |
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Born in 43bc in Sulmo
he wrote Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Medicina Faciei, and a tragedy called Madea of which only two lines survive
augustus banished Ovid to Tomi |
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The first century B.C is called the Golden Age of Latin Literature
The Silver Age is subsequent Literature until the Christian period |
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| Wrote a Greek history of the Etruscans |
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Was known as "rhetor"
wrote Controversiae (5) and Suasoriae (1) |
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Born in Corduba, Spain
he wrote :
Apocolocyntosis: mocking Claudius of becoming a pumpkin instead of a God
Naturales Quaestiones: a work of natural science from a stoic pov.
Epistulae Morales: 124 letters to his friend Lucilius on philosophy
nine or ten tragedies :
Medea: based on Euripedes play only more sympathetic to Jason
Octavia: only complete Fabula Praetexta |
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Born in 23AD in Comum
Historia Naturalis: ENCYCLOPEDIA in 37 books- a history of German wars in 20 books |
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Born in Bilbilis, Spain
given Ius Trium Liberorum
he wrote:
Liber Spectaculorum: in honor of the colosseum opening
he is most famous for epigrams 1500 to 14 |
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Born in northern Italy
he wrote
Agricola: a biography of his father in laws life and his military exploits
Germania: also published in 98 basically the culture and war style of Germans
Annales: 18 books long yrs 14-68 most of it is lost
Historiae: originalily a history from 69-96 12 books long a lot of it is lost too |
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Born in comum
govenor of Bithynia
most famous for his letters describing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius |
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A historian
he wrote
De Viris Illustribus: "on famous men " biographies on literary figures
De Vita Caesarum: " the lives of the Caesars" biography of Julius Caesar and the emperors through domilition |
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Born in Madaura
accused of winning his wife by magic for wealth
Apologia: defending himself ^^^
the golden donkey: Metamorphoses lucius is transformed into a donkey wich includes the story of CUPID and PYSCHE |
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"Attic nights"
Noctes Atticae |
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