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Silver Age of Latin Literature
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Definition: Silver Age literature is the poetry and prose of the early empire. It is considered slightly inferior to the literature of the Golden Age, although some of the Silver Age poets were anything but second-rate. The preceding, Golden Age of Latin literature covered the first century B.C. to the start of the first century A.D. The main writers of the Silver Age of Latin Literature are:
  • Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
  • Phaedrus (d A.D. 14)
  • Persius (34-62)
  • Quintilian (35-95)
  • Lucan (39-65)
  • Petronius (d 60)
  • Statius (48-96)
  • Pliny the Elder (23-79)
  • Tacitus (55- 117)
  • Martial (40-104)
  • Juvenal (60- 135)
  • Pliny the Younger (61-113)
  • Suetonius (70-160)
  • Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
  • Aulus Gellius (123-170)
  • Apuleius (c 125-?)

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