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| Lupercalia | An annual Roman festival held on the 15th of Kal. Feb. to honor Faunus |
| Saturnalia | A Roman festival which begins on the 16th of Kal. Jan. and lasts for a week in the Republic |
| Matronalia | A day to honor the women of Rome which was held on the first day of the year |
| Phythia | "Oracle of Delphi," believed that she could channel prophecies from Apollo |
| Nones | the seventh day of the month |
| Ides | the fifteenth day of the month |
| Calends | the first day of the month |
| augur | A priest who would study the flight of birds |
| haruspex | A soothsayer; a person who practiced a form of divination called haruspicy |
| pontifex maximus | The highest chief of the College of Pontiffs |
| vestals | six priestesses who tend the state cult of the goddess of hearth, Vesta |
| penates | Household deities; protected families; were worshipped at household shrines |
| lares | Guarded homes and families; were worshipped at household shrines |
| Liberalia | A Roman festival where the Roman boys would remove the bulla and toga praetexta |
| conclāmātiō | the calling out of the deceased’s name |
| laudātiō | the eulogy |
| toga pulla | A darkened toga worn by a mourning citizen |
| imāginēs | ancestral masks |
| rogus | A pile of wood the corpse would burn on |
| triumph | a Roman festive procession about the military |
| toga | garment worn by male Roman citizens |
| corona | crown; garland or wreath |
| Pliny | Roman author of the Natural History which was divided into thirty-seven books |
| Plautus | Roman comic dramatist whose work was adapted from Greek plays; Palliata |
| Cicero | A Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher |
| Horace | Roman poet who published the Epodes and the first book of Epistles |
| Ovid | Roman poet whose most famous work is The Metamorphoses |
| Suetonius | Roman biographer whose writings include De viris illustribus and De vita Caesarum |
| Plutarch | A Greek biographer and essayist, also known as the Middle Platonist and his works: Parallel Lives and Moralia |
| Juvenal | Roman poet known for satirical works that include Panem et Circenses and Rara Avis |
| Sallust | Roman politician and historian who wrote Bellum Catilinae and Historiae |
| Sophocles | Ancient Greek tragedian whose surviving works are Ajax, Antigone, and The Trachiniae |
| Euripedes | An Ancient Greek tragedian; created Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Bacchae |
| Homer | author of the Iliadand the Odyssey |
| Aeschylus | Ancient Greek tragedian whose surviving works are Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides. |
| Martial | Roman poet who created his own style of poetry called Epigram |
| Livy | Roman historian known for his work called Ab Urbe Condita |
| Catullus | Roman poet who developed literary techniques such as anaphora, tricolon, alliteration and hyperbaton; Lesbia |
| Tacitus | Roman senator and historian who wrote the Annals and the Histories |
| Sappho | A Greek poet known for lyric poetry; Ode to Aphrodite |
| Seneca | A Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and satirist of Silver Age of Latin literature |
| Pliny the Younger | Roman official and writer, famous for his historical letters |
