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Biographies of Romans (Representatives of culture)

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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

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

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

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

Sallust

Sallust Foto: Wienwiki / Walter Maderbacher Sallust was born in 86 BCE in Amiternum in the land of the Sabines (northeast of Rome) as Gaius Sallustius Crispus. He tried to make a political career in Rome, he was a quaestor ... Read more

Vitruvius

Image of Vitruvius (right), from 1684, who is presenting to Augustus De Architectura. Na licencji Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa - Na tych samych warunkach 3.0. Marcus Vitruvius was born as Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. He was a Roman architect and war ... Read more

Lucretius

Lucretius was born around 99 BCE as Titus Lucretius Carus. He was a Roman poet and philosopher. One of the narrow group – next to Catullus and comedy writers Plautus and Terentius – poets of the republican Rome, whose works ... Read more

Publilius Syrus

Publilius Syrus lived in the 1st century BCE. He was a Roman writer, mime artist, theatre representative and creator of a sentence. He wrote in Latin. According to Pliny the Elder, Publilius Syrus was from Antioch in Syria and came ... Read more

Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro was probably born in Reate (now Rieti in Italy) in 116 BCE. Called Varro of Reate (Reatinus), unlike the poet Varro of Atax. He was a Roman scholar and writer, and in his political career, he came ... Read more

Publius Terence Afer

Terence Publius Terence Afer (Publius Terentius Afer), also called Terence, who lived around 185/41 – 159 BCE, was a Roman comedy writer whose work was popular not only in ancient Rome but also in the Middle Ages and later. Terence ... Read more

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