Augustan literature (ancient Rome)

Augustan literature produced the most widely read, influential, and enduring of Rome's poets. The Republican poets Catullus and Lucretius are their immediate predecessors; Lucan, Martial, Juvenal and Statius are their so-called "Silver Age" heirs. Although Vergil has sometimes been considered a "court poet", his Aeneid, the most important of the Latin epics, also permits complex readings on the source and meaning of Rome's power and the responsibilities of a good leader. Ovid's works were wildly popular, but the poet was exiled by Augustus in one of literary history's great mysteries; carmen et error ("a poem and a mistake") is Ovid's own oblique explanation. Among prose works, the monumental history of Livy is preeminent for both its scope and stylistic achievement. The multi-volume work De architectura by Vitruvius also remains of great informational interest. ==List of Augustan writers==

• Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil, spelled also as Vergil) (70 – 19 BC), • Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65 – 8 BC), known for lyric poetry and satires • Sextus Aurelius Propertius (50 – 15 BC), poet • Albius Tibullus (54 – 19 BC), elegiac poet • Titus Livius (Livy) (64 BC – 12 AD), historian • Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (43 BC – 18 AD), poet • Grattius Faliscus (a contemporary of Ovid), poet • Marcus Manilius (1st century BC & AD), astrologer, poet • Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – 17 AD), librarian, poet, mythographer • Marcus Verrius Flaccus (55 BC – 20 AD), grammarian, philologist, calendarist • Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (80 70 BC – after 15 BC), engineer, architect • Marcus Antistius Labeo (d. 10 or 11 AD), jurist, philologist • Lucius Cestius Pius (1st century BC & AD), Latin educator • Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (1st century BC), historian, naturalist • Marcus Porcius Latro (1st century BC), rhetorician • Gaius Valgius Rufus (consul 12 BC), poet • Sulpicia, elegiac poet ==References==