Ovid

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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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Virgil

Roman poet

Albius Tibullus

Roman poet

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Horace

Roman poet

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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

Joost van den Vondel

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch writer

Calpurnius Siculus

Roman poet

Lucan

Roman author

Statius

Roman poet

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