the roman empire

The Roman Empire

Historical Background

General View of the Literature

TRAGEDYSeneca

(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

3 B.C. – A.D. 65

Seneca’s Tragedy

Mad Hercules

Seneca’s Tragedy

The Trojan Women

Seneca’s Tragedy

The Phoenician Women

Seneca’s Tragedy

Medea

Seneca’s Tragedy

Phaedra

Seneca’s Tragedy

Oedipus

Seneca’s Tragedy

Thyestes

Seneca’s Tragedy

Agamemnon

Seneca’s Tragedy

Hercules on Oeta

-Meter

-Characteristics of Senecan Tradegy

-Significance andInfluence

-Dialogues

Prose works

-Moral Epistles

-Ethical Treatises-Natural Questions-Pumpkinification

Satire

Petronius(Gaius Petronius

Arbiter)

The Satyricon

Satire

Satire

Martial(Marcus Valerius

Martialis)

Juvenal(Decimus Junius

Juvenalis)

Satire

The EpicLucan

(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)

The Epic

Statius(Publius Papinius Statius)

Natural History

Pliny the Elder(Gaius Plinius Secundus)

A.D. 23 - 79

Natural History

Pliny the Younger(Gaius Plinius Secundus)

A.D. 62-c. 113

Literary History and Criticism

c. A.D. 30 - 96Quintilian

(Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)

History and Biography

Tacitus(Cornelius Tacitus)

c. A.D. 55 - 177

-Works

-Thoughts

-Style and Technique

History and Biography

History and Biography

Suetonius(Gaius Suetonius Tranquillius)

c. A.D. 75 - 1740

-Works

-Characteristics, Merits, and Defects

History and Biography

The Tale

Apuleius(Lucius Apuleius)

c. A.D. 125

-Works

The Tale

-The Style of Apuleius -Influence

Christian Writers

Christian Writers

St. Jerome(Eusebius Hieronymus)

c. 340 - 420

Christian Writers

St. Augustine(Aurelius Augustinus)

354 - 430

-The Confessions

-The City of God

354 - 430

Christian Writers

Christian Writers

Boethius(Ancius Manlius

Severinus Boethius)

c. 475 - 525

-The Consolation ofPhilosophy

Christian Writers