Ancient Roman rhetoricians

Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)

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

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.

Apuleius ( ), also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (c. 124 – after 170), was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. He declaimed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magist

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius (; Latin: Boetius; 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the translation of the Greek classics into Latin, a precursor to the Scholastic movement, and, along with Cassiodorus, one of the two leading Christian scholars of the 6th century. The local cult of Boethius in the Diocese of Pavia was sanctioned by the Sacred Congregation of Rites in 1883, confirming the diocese's custom of honouring him on the 23 October

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; – ) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( ), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius (; ) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future Emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the River Moselle, and Ephemeris, an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in the technical handling of meter.

Roman scholar, writer and historian (54 BC-c.39 AD)

Roman author and teacher (c.175–c.235)

2nd century Roman rhetorician and advocate

Latin prose writer of Late Antiquity

thumb|270px|right|Priscian, or the Grammar, relief from the bell tower of Florence by [[Luca della Robbia]] Priscianus Caesariensis (), commonly known as Priscian ( or ), was a Latin grammarian and the author of the Institutes of Grammar, which was the standard textbook for the study of Latin during the Middle Ages. It also provided the raw material for the field of speculative grammar.

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

1st century BC Roman poet and orator

Roman philosopher, theologian and writer

Roman philologist (c. 154 – 74 BC)

general of Julius Caesar

Roman consul 166 BC

Roman consul 76 BC

1st century AD Roman orator and advocate

Roman politician and orator during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (c.63 BC-AD 26)

1st century AD Roman rhetorician, poet and senator

Ancient Roman orator and historian

Eumenius (Greek: Εύμένιος; born c. 260 CE at the latest, more probably between 230 and 240 CE), was one of the Ancient Roman panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini (Pan. Lat. IX).

Roman rhetorician during the reign of Tiberius

writer (0115-0065)

1st century BC Roman orator and teacher

Latin rhetorician and panegyrist

first Equestrian of Ancient Rome to teach rhetoric

Roman orator and teacher of rhetoric who was active during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius

teacher of Ovid

Roman writer

politician and philosopher

1st century Roman dramatist

1st century Roman orator

granduncle of Cicero

praetorian prefect of Gaul from 371 to 376

3rd century Roman sophist and rhetorician

Roman Latin grammarian

goth-Roman rhetorician, philosopher and educator

1st century Roman orator in the reign of Nero

Roman rhetor

early Latin rhetorician

latin rhetorician who flourished during the reign of Augustus