Important
Roman Authors
Ovid
(Publius Ovidius Naso)
- Metamorphoses - mythological stories focusing on
transformations
- Amores
- Tristia
- Ars
Amatoria
Vergil
(Publius Vergilius Maro)
- The Aeneid - epic about the Trojan hero Aeneas
and his
journey to Italy
- The Eclogues
- The
Georgics
Pliny
the Elder (Plinius Major)
- Natural History - a scientific encyclopedia
Pliny
the Younger (Plinius
Minor)
Livy
(Titus Livius)
- Historiae Ab Urbe Condita/History (of Rome) From
the
Founding of the City
Tacitus
(Cornelius Tacitus)
- Germania - a history of Germany
- Annales/The
Annals
- Historiae/The Histories
Horace
(Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
- Epodes/Odes; Sermones/Sermons; Carmina/Poems;
Epistulae/Letters
Juvenal
(Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis)
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
- In Catilinam/Against Catiline - orations exposing
the
Catilinarian conspiracy
- Philippics - orations
against Mark Antony’s war in
Philippi
- De Senectute - an essay on old age
Julius
Caesar (Gaius Iulius
Caesar)
- De Bello Gallico/Of the Gallic
Wars - Caesar’s
account of his war with Gaul
- De Bello Civili/Of
the Civil War - Caesar’s account
of his war with Pompey
Augustus
(Gaius Iulius Caesar
Octavianus Augustus)
- Res Gestae - Augustus’ explanation of his
accomplishments as emperor
Lucretius
(Titus
Lucretius Carus)- De
Rerum Natura/On the Nature of Things - An exposition of Epicurean ideas
Catullus
(Gaius
Valerius Catullus)- Wrote
a series of elegiac poems, the most famous of which were written to a
lover he called Lesbia.
Copyright
2003 by Mark
Spreitzer