the roman empire
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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