DLB 211: Ancient Roman Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 211)

Accius -- Ammianus Marcellinus -- Apuleius -- Aulus Gellius -- Cato The Elder -- Catullus -- Cicero -- Columella -- Quintus Curtius Rufus -- Ennius -- Frontinus -- Horace -- Julius Caesar -- Juvenal -- Livy -- Lucan -- Lucilius -- Lucretius -- Manilius -- Martial -- Naevius -- Nepos -- Ovid -- Persius -- Petronius -- Phaedrus -- Plautus -- Pliny The Elder -- Pliny The Younger -- Propertius -- Quintilian -- Sallust -- Seneca The Elder -- Seneca The Younger -- Statius -- Suetonius -- Tacitus -- Terence -- Tibullus -- Valerius Flaccus -- Valerius Maximus -- Varro -- Velleius Paterculus -- Virgil -- Vitruvius. Accius / W. Jeffrey Tatum -- Ammianus Marcellinus / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Apuleius / Gerald Sandy -- Aulus Gellius / Leofranc Holford-strevens -- Cato The Elder / Ward Briggs -- Catullus / William W. Batstone -- Cicero / James M. May -- Columella / Ward Briggs -- Quintus Curtius Rufus / Michele Valerie Ronnick -- Ennius / Richard L.s. Evans -- Frontinus / Harry B. Evans -- Horace / Jeanne Neumann O'neill -- Julius Caesar / Craige B. Champion -- Juvenal / F.m.a. Jones -- Livy / Tracy Keefer -- Lucan / Botham Stone -- Lucilius / W. Jeffrey Tatum -- Lucretius / David Wray -- Manilius / Ward Briggs -- Martial / William J. Dominick -- Naevius / Sander M. Goldberg -- Nepos / Jane Che -- Ovid / Peter E. Knox -- Persius / Kenneth J. Reckford -- Petronius / Gareth Schmeling -- Phaedrus / Michele Valerie Ronnick -- Plautus / Timothy J. Moore -- Pliny The Elder / Paul T. Keyser -- Pliny The Younger / W. Jeffrey Tatum -- Propertius / J.k. Newman -- Quintilian / Christopher P. Craig -- Sallust / Robert W. Ulery, Jr. -- Seneca The Elder / William Seaton -- Seneca The Younger / A.j. Boyle -- Statius / Stephen T. Newmyer -- Suetonius / Richard C. Lounsbury -- Tacitus / Ronald Mellor -- Terence / Charles E. Mercier -- Tibullus / David F. Bright -- Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos -- Valerius Maximus / Hans-friedrich Mueller -- Varro / David J. Taylor -- Velleius Paterculus / David Potter -- Virgil / Nicholas Horsfall -- Vitruvius / Peter J. Aicher. Edited By Ward W. Briggs. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Contributors: P. 373-374. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 371-372) And Cumulative Index (p. 377-438). The history of Rome is essentially the history of one nation imitating another, namely Greece. The Romans invented only one genre, the satire. Roman writers borrowed their subject matter from the Greeks in all but one respect, history. Several of these Roman authors were slaves or came from slave families. It was the Greek-speaking early-freed slaves that taught the Romans to give their literature subjectivity