Roman dates | Quizlet

Foundation of Rome

753, given by livy, start of Rome as a roman-etruscan kingdom

Start of republic

510, debated, year athens became a democracy

Callimachus

305-240

captained a new way to do poetry and how

spread his ideas via own poetry -> metapoetics: poetry about poetry

small works, themes based on home, refined language filed w learned references & puns

Theocritus

300-250

follower of the poetic ideals of Callimachnus

Father of the pastoral genre

Libanius

314-393

Defender of Hellenism, Master of epistolography, didactic letters

Apollonius of Rhodes

295-215

Wrote the Argonautica: story about Jason setting out to find the golden fleece

Conquest of Greece

168, deep cultural implications

Principate

31BC, system of government established by Caesar Augustus

Destruction of Rome

410, the western roman empire, was divided years before

Conquest of Byzantium

1453, Eastern roman empire

Golden Latin

83BC - 14AD

Silver Latin

14-117AD

Gnaevius Naevius

270-201BC

wrote tragedies, comedies, epic: Bellum Punicum: punic war between Rome and Carthage

Livius Andronicus

200-280BC

Comedies, Translated Odyssey into latin

Fabius Pictor

200BC

Wrote in Greek

History from Aeneas to 2nd Punic war

Ennius

239-169

father of roman epic, introduced the hexameter in latin = risky sound effects

wrote annales: history of rome, from fall of troy in 1184 - his own days

present himself like Homer

Cato Censor

234-149BC

Origins: collections of stories about the foundations of several roman cities on the roman penisula, prose

Manuals on farming & Roman law

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

106-43

80: pro roscio amerino

70: In verrem

63: in catiinam

Gaius Julius Caesar

100BC-44BC

Lucretius

99-55

completed the first transmitted epic poem in Latin

Wrote De Rerum Natura/On the nature of things 55BC

Catallus

84-54

The Carmina

Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus

86-35

Focused on the conspiracy aganist Catalina

Virgil

70BC - 19BC

Publius Vergilius Mare

Bucolica/Eclogae 42-39

Horace

65-8BC

wrote critical short poems, Odes

Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

1BC - 65

Titus Livius

Livy

59BC - 17AD

Ab Urte

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

56-117

Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

40-100

Ovid

43BC - 17/18AD

Publius Ovidius Naso

Metamorphoses, 8AD

Lucan

39-65

De bello Civil/Pharsalia: historical drama, consider and epic because of the meter, not theme

Statius

40-96

Valerius Flaccus

90

wrote the Argonautica

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

27-66

Satyricon