2nd-century BC Romans

Marcus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal () family of the Roman

Titus Maccius Plautus ( ; 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine () refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his. He influenced some of the greatest figures in literature, including Shakespeare and Molière (The Miser is partly modeled after Plautus's Aulularia).

Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. All six of Terence's plays survive complete and were originally produced between 166 and 160 BC.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (, ; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman of the late Roman Republic. Coming to fame for his military exploits, he was the first general during the late republic to march on Rome and win a civil war. After purging his opponents, he assumed the dictatorship, sought to strengthen the republican system by means of reforms to the constitution, and resigned his plenary powers after their enactment.

Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)

Roman historian and biographer (c.110 BC–c.25 BC)

ancient Roman politician

Lucius Licinius Lucullus (; 118–57/56 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination of over 20 years of almost continuous military and government service, he conquered the eastern kingdoms in the course of the Third Mithridatic War, exhibiting extraordinary generalship in diverse situations, most famously during the Siege of Cyzicus in 73–72 BC, and at the Battle of Tigranocerta in Armenian Arzanene in 69 BC. His command style received unusually favourable attention from ancient military experts, and his campaigns appear to have been studi

Roman rebel leader (Sertorian War)

Roman poet and literary scholar (170–c.86 BC)

2nd-century BC Roman satirist

Marcus Pacuvius (; 220 – ) was an ancient Roman tragic poet. He is regarded as the greatest of their tragedians prior to Lucius Accius.

Roman senator and father of Julius Caesar (c.140 BC - 85 BC)

Roman comic poet (c. 220 BC – c. 166 BC)

ancient Roman brothers known for their populism

Ancient Roman consul, general and statesman. A leader of the Optimates

Roman populist and tribune (died 100 BC)

Roman consul in 90 BC

consul of the Roman Republic in 78 BC

Ancient Roman jurist, politician and writer (consul in 95 BC)

Roman philologist (c. 154 – 74 BC)

Roman consul 95 BC

Eunus (died 132 BC) was a Roman slave from Apamea in Syria who became the leader and king of the slave uprising during the First Servile War (135 BC–132 BC) in the Roman province of Sicily. According to the historian Florus, his name is remembered due to the severe defeats he inflicted on the Romans.

2nd-century Roman jurist and historian

Roman consul in 78 BCE

Roman consul 98 BC

Roman general and politician (c. 136 BC–c. 54 BC)

Roman poet, who versified the exploits of Julius Caesar in Gaul

Roman consul 96 BC

Roman consul 166 BC

Roman consul 79 BC

Roman consul

Roman orator, consul in 91 BC and censor in 86 BC

Ancient Roman consul

Roman consul 99 BC

Roman senator and general (c.248 BC–196 BC)

Ancient Roman general

Roman consul ca. 75 BCE; mentioned as an orator by Cicero

Roman censor 209 BC

Roman politician and praetor (died 100 BC)

Roman consul 205 BC

Roman senator and tribune in 133 BC

Roman consul 100 BC

Roman consul 94 BC

1st-century BC Roman senator and military leader

consul 98 BC

Roman consul 83 BC

Roman consul 75 BC

Roman senator, consul and dictator (died 180 BC)

Roman consul 94 BC

Roman politician and historian

Roman consul 131 BC

Roman consul

son of Cato the Elder, jurist

Roman historian

Roman historian

Roman suffect consul 86 BC

Roman senator, orator and poet (c. 131 – 87 BC)

Roman admiral and praetor during the war with Antiochus III of Syria

Late 2nd-century BC leader of Second Servile Revolt