Roman Poets
1st Vice President Lucia Boadas Peña
Phaedrus
Born: 15BC, in Thrace
Died: AD 50 in Italy
Born a slave, became a
freedman and received
Greek education
Works: Fables; short stories,
animals, lesson, Latinized
Aesopic tales
Martial
Born: AD 40 in Spain
Died: AD 104 in Rome
Countryside home,
educated in Hispania,
equestrian
Works: Epigrams
(satire)
Catullus
Born: 84 BC in
Verona
Died: 54 BC in Rome
Wealthy, well-
connected family
Works: Neoteric style;
lyric poetry, love and
hatred
Ovid
Born: 43BC in Sulmo
Died: AD17 in Tomis
Equestrian, studied to
become lawyer, exiled
Works: Metamorphoses,
Ars Amatoria, Amores,
Heroides, Fasti
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Horace
Born: 65 BC in Venusia
Died: 8 BC in Rome
Samnite, born to freed
slaves, Greek
education, tribunus
militum
Works: Lyric poetry,
Epodes, Ars Poetica
Virgil
Born: 70 BC in Mantua
Died: 19 BC in Brundisium
Peasant, countryfarm, educated
at Rome, life centered around
writing
Works: Epic poetry; The Aeneid,
Eclogues, Georgics