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Also Known As	Titus Petronius Niger
Died	66
Notable Works	“Cena Trimalchionis” • “Satyricon”
Movement / Style	Silver Age

Statius

Roman poet

Lucan

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Seneca

Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]

Persius

Roman poet

Henry Fielding

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Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Thomas Nashe

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Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

German novelist

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Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

Spanish writer

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Alain-René Lesage

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Wu Jingzi

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Horace

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Marcus Terentius Varro

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Tacitus

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Martial

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Juvenal

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Pliny the Elder

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Quintilian

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Pliny the Younger

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Gaius Valerius Flaccus

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