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Biographies of Romans (Representatives of culture)

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Gaius Valerius Catullus

Contemporary bust of Catullus. Creative Commons Attribution license - On the same terms 3.0. Gaius Valerius Catullus was born between 87 and 82 BCE in Verona in Pre-Alpine Gaul as Gaius Valerius Catullus. He was a late republican Roman poet, ... Read more

Virgil

Virgil Virgil was born on October 15, 70 BCE in the village of Andes near Mantua in Pre-Alpine Gaul, under the names of Publius Vergilius Maro., During the first consulate of Pompey and Crassus. An outstanding poet, the greatest Roman ... Read more

Horace

Horace worked during the most splendid flourishing of Roman literature during the time of Augustus. Illustration from 1905, Anton von Werner. Horace was born on 8th of December 65 BCE in Apulia under the name of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. He ... Read more

Titus Livius

Tytus Liwius Titus Livius was born in 59 BCE in Patavium, today’s Padua. The main historian of the era of Augustus. He was widely respected at the imperial court. He was friends with the emperor himself, who – according to ... Read more

Propertius

Auguste Jean Baptiste Vinchon, Propertius and Cynthia in Tivoli Propertius was born around 50 BCE as Sextus Propertius. He was a Roman poet of the Augustus period. He wrote mainly love elegies, the most famous of which were dedicated to ... Read more

Ovid

Ovid in the figure. Ovid was born on March 20, 43 BCE. in Sulmon (Abruzzo, Italy), under the name of Publius Ovidius Naso. He was one of the greatest Roman poets of the Augustan era. The son of a rich ... Read more

Seneca the Younger

Seneca the Younger on the Roman herm. On the other side of the bust is located, Socrates. Author: Calidius | Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Minor) was born around 4 ... Read more

Flavius Josephus

Joseph Flavius in the engraving from William Whiston’s translation. Josephus Flavius (Iosephus Flavius ) was born in 37 CE in Jerusalem in the priesthood. He was married three times and had two sons – Justus and Simonides. Josephus was a ... Read more

Martial

Martial Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) was a Roman poet born in Augusta Blbilis in Spain around 40 CE. We don’t know much about the first 40 years of his life. He came to Rome in the time of Nero at ... Read more

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, also called Tacitus, was born in 55 CE, most likely in Gaul. His other name may have been Gaius. Tacitus is called a king of Roman historians. He was learning rhetoric from Quintilianus. In ... Read more

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