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Biographies of Romans (Representatives of culture)

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Favorinus of Arelate

Sophist Favorinus of Arelate (today Arles in the south of France) lived in the years around 80-160 CE and was a famous sophist and philosopher. Although he was Gaul, he mastered Greek to perfection, which made him an acknowledged and ... Read more

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder on the nineteenth-century image. Interestingly, in a letter from Pliny the Younger to Tacitus about the eruption of Vesuvius, Pliny the Elder is presented as a very fat person, so the artist’s image seems to be wrong. ... Read more

Suetonius

Suetonius in the illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) was probably born around 69 CE in Italy. Roman writer and historian, creator of the biography of Roman emperors. He wrote in both Latin and Greek. He was ... Read more

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger Pliny the Younger (Plinius Minor) was born as Gaius Caecilius Cilo in 61 CE in Comum Novum (now Como in Lombardy, in northern Italy). Pliny was a lawyer, writer, and Roman official. He witnessed the eruption of ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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