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Also Known As Publius Ovidius Naso
Born March 20, 43 BCE • Sulmona • Italy
Died 17 • Romania
Notable Works “Ars amatoria” • “Epistles of the Heroines” • “Epistulae ex Ponto” • “Fasti” • “Remedies for Love” • “The Loves” • “Tristia”
Movement / Style Augustan Age

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mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene
Virgil
Roman poet
Albius Tibullus
Roman poet
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
Sextus Propertius
Roman poet
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Lucretius
Lucretius
Latin poet and philosopher
Martial
Roman poet
Juvenal
Juvenal
Roman poet
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Quintus Ennius
Roman author
Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Calpurnius Siculus
Roman poet
Lucan
Roman author
Statius
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