Ancient Roman writers

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman, and author who was the dictator of the Roman Republic almost continuously from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. A member of the First Triumvirate, he led the Roman armies through the Gallic Wars and defeated his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil war. He consolidated power and proclaimed himself dictator for life in 44 BC, which contributed to the political conditions that led to the collapse of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. For his role in these events, he is regarded as one of the most influential historical figures.

Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Some minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars regard these as spurious, with the possible exception of some short pieces.

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (), known in English as Juvenal ( ; AD 55–128), was a Roman poet. He is the author of the Satires, a collection of satirical poems. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, but references in his works to people from the late first and early second centuries suggest that he began writing no earlier than that time. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. A reference to a political figure dates his fifth and final surviving book to sometime after 127.

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.

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

1st century BC Syrian-born Latin writer

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius () was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Crispus. His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics.

Roman writer on agriculture

Roman physician and writer

Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC – AD 17)

Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).

Latin-language writer

Roman historian, politician and soldier

Commodian (Commodianus) was a Christian Latin poet, who flourished about AD 250.

1st century BC/AD Roman jurist and author

Roman physician and writer

Roman consul 105 BC

Roman historian and writer

Ancient Roman writer

1st-century Roman writer

Latin writer

Grattius (or Gratius) Faliscus was a Roman poet who flourished during the life of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD). He is known as the author of a Cynegetica, a poem on hunting.

Pelagonius (4th century AD) was an influential Latin writer on veterinary medicine, especially on horses. He is one of the many authors whose work was compiled and preserved in the Hippiatrica. Remains of his texts still exist in Latin and Greek. One of his sources was Columella. He was used by Vegetius.

2nd-century BC Roman comic playwright

Fenestella (c. 52 BC – c. AD 19) was a Roman historian and encyclopaedic writer.

3rd century Carthaginian Latin author and Christian saint

Roman writer

Roman writer and supporter of Julius Caesar

Roman historian

Roman writer and geographer

brother of Achaicus

Roman jurist and assassin of Julius Caesar

Roman suffect consul 4 AD

Roman gromaticus

Roman grammarian

Roman writer

Roman jurist and writer of the 1st century BC

ancient Roman writer