HI363 Age of Augustus

Literary Figures in or writing about the Augustan Age (see the table)

All dates CE unless otherwise noted. Dates in italics are approximate.

Birth

Death

Writer

70 BCE

8 BCE

Maecenas, patron of literature

70 BCE

19 BCE

Vergil, epic and pastoral poet (Georgics, Eclogues, Aeneid)

65 BCE

8 BCE

Horace, lyric poet (Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare)

63 BCE

14

Augustus, author of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti

59 BCE

17

Livy, historian (Historia ab urbe condita)

54 BCE

19 BCE

Tibullus, elegiac poet

50 BCE

15 BCE

Propertius, elegiac poet

43 BCE

18 BCE

Ovid, elegiac poet (Ars Amatoria, Amores, Metamorphoses)

19 BCE

31 CE

Velleius Paterculus, historian, Compendium Historiae Romanae

4 BCE

65

Seneca the Younger, philosopher and scientist

23

79

Pliny the Elder, historian and scientist (Historia Natura)

37

100

Josephus, Jewish historian who wrote in Aramaic and Greek

39

65

Lucan, epic poet

?

66

Death of Petronius (Satyricon)

46

120

Plutarch, Roman historian and biographer who wrote in Greek

40

104

Martial, writer of verse epigrams and satire

55

117

Tacitus, historian and biographer (Annales, Historiae)

61

112

Pliny the Younger, letter writer

65

140

Juvenal, writer of verse satire

70

140

Suetonius, biographer (Vita Augusti)

120

180

Lucian, humorist, writing in Greek

125

Birth of Apuleius, novelist (Metamorphoses)

160

Appian, Roman historian, writing in Greek

165

235

Cassius Dio, Roman historian who wrote in Greek