Golden Age of Latin literature

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) - lyric poet and elegist

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venosa, December 8, 65 BC - Rome, November 27, 8 BC) - lyric poet and satirist

Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC- ca. 55 BC) - poet and philosopher.

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17 or 18) - elegist, didactic poet and mythological poet

Sextus Aurelius Propertius born around 50–45 BC - elegiac poet

Albius Tibullus (ca. 54-19 BC) - elegiac poet

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC) - epic, didactic and pastoral poet

Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) - orator, philosopher and correspondent

Publilius Syrus (1st century BC) - writer of maxims

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) - writer, architect and engineer

Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC – AD 17) - Historian

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, (86-34 BC) - historian

Gaius Julius Caesar, July 13, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC - Wrote commentaries on his military campaign

Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-24 BC) - biographer

Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus - (September 23, 63 BC – August 19, AD 14) - First Emperor of the Rome, Poet, and Autobiographer