Ancient Roman antiquarians

Plutarch (; , Ploútarchos, ; before AD 50 – after 120) was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was possibly named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ().

1st-century Roman military commander and writer

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

1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher

Athenaeus of Naucratis (; or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.

2nd century Roman author and grammarian

Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl. AD 400), was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during late antiquity, the period of time corresponding to the Later Roman Empire, and when Latin was as widespread as Greek among the elite. He is primarily known for his writings, which include the widely copied and read Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis ("Commentary on the Dream of Scipio") about Somnium Scipionis, which was one of the most important sources for Neoplatonism in the Latin West during the Middle Ages; the Saturnalia, a compendium of an

Roman lexicographer and writer (55 BC-20 AD)

Roman philosopher and writer (0098-0045)

Censorinus () was a Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer.

4th-century Roman grammarian

Roman philologist (c. 154 – 74 BC)

Roman politician, historian and writer

2nd-century Roman historian

ancient Roman poet

tribune of the plebs in 82 BC executed for having spoken Rome's secret name out loud

Cincius was a Roman antiquarian writer probably of the time of Augustus. His praenomen was perhaps Lucius, but his cognomen goes unrecorded. He is frequently confused with the annalist Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who fought in the Second Punic War, although some scholars still maintain that Cincius Alimentus was also the antiquarian.

3rd century Roman theologian and antiquarian