Roman Authors Quiz

Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, author of Institutio Oratoria.

• Cicero

• Seneca

• Quintilian

• Suetonius

Stoic philosopher (1st cent. AD), tutor to Nero.

• Marcus Aurelius

• Seneca

• Epictetus

• Pliny the Elder

Leading lyric poet of Augustus’ age, famous for the Odes.

• Ovid

• Propertius

• Horace

• Juvenal

African Roman playwright who adapted Greek comedies; six of his plays survive.

• Plautus

• Terence

• Seneca

• Ennius

Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura.

• Vitruvius

• Varro

• Frontinus

• Sallust

Roman lawyer and magistrate, whose Letters are of great historical value.

• Cicero

• Seneca

• Pliny the Younger

• Tacitus

Member of Maecenas’ circle, author of the Aeneid.

• Vergil

• Ovid

• Horace

• Lucan

Poet of the Satires (late 1st–early 2nd cent. AD).

• Martial

• Juvenal

• Catullus

• Persius

Augustan elegiac poet, friend of Gallus and Vergil, protege of Maecenas.

• Propertius

• Ovid

• Catullus

• Tibullus

Historian and politician, author of Annals and Histories.

• Tacitus

• Livy

• Sallust

• Suetonius