Augustus favored Horace and commissioned him to write the Carmen Saeculare for the Secular Games of 17 BC Horace was one of the Roman satirists.

Ovid was a prolific Roman poet. Augustus exiled Ovid for a song and an error -- in Latin ... Ovid is therefore one of the most important of the Roman poets, ...

Roman verse satire, a literary genre created by the Romans, is personal and subjective, providing insight into the poet and a look (albeit, ...

Greek and Roman writers developed genres we know of as literature. ... Did that make them scientists? poets? Yes, but they are generally referred to as ...

Even earlier, the great Greek epic poets had staked a claim to the meter Lucilius chose. As William J. Dominik and William T. Wehrle point out in Roman ...

Timeline of Roman Satire. ... Sources: Michael Coffey Roman Satire. A History of Roman Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius, ...

Statius was a first century Roman who wrote Silver Age Latin poetry.

In Roman fashion, Seneca took the honorable way out of his troubles. He committed suicide, in A.D. 65. Seneca's works include: ...

Fescennine verse was a precursor of Roman comedy and was satirical, bawdy, and improvizational, used mainly at festivals or weddings (nuptialia carmina), ...

The Atellan farce was an early type of Roman dramatic entertainment that lasted even into the Imperial period. Originally, Atellan farces were ...