5th-century Roman poets

Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (Greek: Κλαυδιανός; ), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho. His work, written almost entirely in hexameters or elegiac couplets, falls into three main categories: poems for Honorius, poems for Stilicho, and mythological epic.

Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop (430-489)

thumb| Aurelius Prudentius Clemens ( ) was a Roman Christian poet, born in the Roman province of Tarraconensis (now Northern Spain) in 348. He probably died in the Iberian Peninsula some time after 405, possibly around 413. The place of his birth is uncertain, but it may have been Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza), Tarraco (Tarragona), or Calagurris (Calahorra).

Christian bishop and saint

poet and politician (4th to 5th century CE)

5th-century Roman poet

thumb|10th-century manuscript of Avianus' fables: The Frog Physician and The Mischievous Dog Avianus (or possibly Avienus; c. AD 400) was a pagan writer of fables in Latin.

Archbishop of Vienne

Salvian (or Salvianus) was a Christian writer of the 5th century in Roman Gaul.

Blossius Aemilius Dracontius () of Carthage was a Christian poet who flourished in Roman Africa during the latter part of the 5th century. He belonged to a family of landowners, and practiced as a lawyer in his native place. After the conquest of the country by the Vandals, Dracontius was at first allowed to retain possession of his estates, but was subsequently despoiled of his property and thrown into prison by the Vandal king Gaiseric, whose triumphs he had omitted to celebrate, while he had written a panegyric on a foreign and hostile ruler. He subsequently addressed an elegiac poem to the

Orientius was a Christian Latin poet of the fifth century.

Roman poet

Gallo-Roman theologian

Egyptian politician (400-470)

bishop of Toul

Roman poet

ancient Greek poet

5th century Roman poet and writer

fifth-century poet

Gallic rhetorician and poet from Marseille of the fifth century CE

5th-century Roman poet

poet, wife of Boetheius