| A | B |
|---|
| Livius Andronicus | founder of Latin literature |
| translated Odyssey into Latin verse | Livius Andronicus |
| Gnaeus Naevius | first native Roman writer |
| Quintus Ennius | Annales in 3rd century BC |
| Plautus | playwrite in 3rd century BC |
| Cato the Elder | 1st prose Roman history in Latin |
| Terence | Carthaginian playwrite |
| Lucretius | Epicurean epic poet died from a love potion |
| Cicero | executed by Antony in 43 BC |
| Sallust | historian 86-35 BC |
| Catullus | lyric poet 84-54 BC |
| Caesar | wrote military commentaries |
| Vergil | epic poet 70-19 BC |
| Horace | lyric poet 65-8BC |
| Livy | History from the fouding of the city to the death of Drusus |
| Propertius | wrote poems about Cynthia |
| Tibullus | wrote poems about Delia |
| Augustus | Res Gestae |
| Ovid | wrote Fastii, Tristia, the Epistulae ex Ponto, the Halieutica, and Ibis while in exile |
| 1st century BC | Golden Age of Latin Literature |
| emperor Claudius | wrote greek history of the Etruscans |
| Seneca the Elder | wrote Controversiae and Suasoriae |
| Seneca the Younger | Philosopher and Stoic |
| Pliny the Elder | Historia Natualis - encyclopedia |
| Persius | satirist friend of Lucan |
| Quintilian | rhetorician who wrote treatise to teach others |
| Lucan | epic poet, nefew to Seneca, Nero forced his suicide |
| Petronius | wrote Satyricon 1st century AD |
| Statius | wrote Thebiad 1st century AD |
| Silius Italicus | considered the worst Latin poet and starved himself to death |
| Martial | wrote epigrams 1st century AD |
| Tacitus | historian late 1st centure AD |
| Juvenal | satirist 60-130 AD |
| Pliny the Younger | famous for letters |
| Suetonius | historian worked for Trajan and Hadrian |
| Apuleius | accused of winning his wife through magic |
