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Livy
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.Life …Livy (2)
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.Scope of the History of Rome The History of Rome from its foundation was a very, very large work.…Livy (3)
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.Characteristics …Livy (4)
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.Sources Livy boasted that he had read all relevant Greek and Roman books of history, and there is no…Livy (5)
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.Assessment In Antiquity, Livy was praised by many authors. Writing during the reign of the emperor Domitian, Quintilian states…Menander
Menander (342-291): Athenian playwright, author of many comedies, which are only fragmentary preserved and best known from Roman adaptations. Menander The comedies…Pausanias
Pausanias (c.125-c.180?): Greek author, writer of a Description of Greece. Portrait of a Roman man, third quarter of the second century No…Philostratus
Lucius Flavius Philostratus (c.170-c.247): one of the leading sophists or orators of his day, spent some years at the Roman imperial court, author of a Lives of the Sophists and an intriguing Life of Apollonius of Tyana.Philostrati …Pindar
Pindar (518-438): famous Greek poet, well known for his odes. Pindar The name of the Boeotian poet Pindar will forever be connected…
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Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder or Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79): Roman officer and encyclopedist, author of the Natural History.Youth Portrait of a Roman…Pliny the Elder (2)
Scholar Nero When Pliny returned to Rome in 59, he was thirty-six years old, a reliable officer in search for a new…