Tacitus

Tacitus

male, deceased (117)
senator, Silver Age Latin author, Latin writer, annalist, historiographical, Historiography…Silver Age of Latin literature, latinlanguage
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major...
Livius Andronicus

Livius Andronicus

male
latinlanguage, Livius, Old Latin author, Epic poetry, greek, Magna Graecia…Latin writer
Lucius Livius Andronicus (280/260 BC?-200 BC?), was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet who produced the first Roman dramatic work and translated...
Nicholas Ostler

Nicholas Ostler

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Foundation for Endangered Languages, Bath, Somerset, University of Oxford, greek, sanskrit…latinlanguage
Nicholas Ostler is a British scholar and author. He is also the author of the 2005 book "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World",...
Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus

male, deceased (1536)
Renaissance Latin author, On Civility in Child, Dutch Renaissance humanist, Leuven alumni before 1968, reformation, greek…latinlanguage
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469 - July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist...

William Smith

male, deceased (1893)
Lexicographer, John Murray, University College School, Sir William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Dictionary of the Bible…latinlanguage
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined for a...
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

male
greek, latinlanguage, Educator, Roman era historian, roman empire, caesar augustus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus.
Martial

Martial

male, deceased (102)
Pederastic poetry, roman emperor, epigram, ancient rome, emperor, latinlanguage…Latin writer, Silver Age Latin author
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of...

De Viris Illustribus

male
Christian, Prophet of the Hebrew Bible, The Histories, Pederastic heroes and deities, I Tatti Renaissance Library, Medieval Latin literature…latinlanguage
"De viris illustribus" is a collection of two, written in the Vulgate Latin, by the 14th century Italian author Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)....
Archbishop Of York

Archbishop Of York

male
York, ex officio, Bishopthorpe, Diocese of York, Sodor and Man, Episcopacy in Anglicanism…latinlanguage
The Archbishop of York is the metropolitan bishop of the Province of York, and is the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after...
Beatus Rhenanus

Beatus Rhenanus

male, deceased (1547)
latinlanguage, Scholar, German native of Alsace, German Renaissance humanist, alsace, basel
Beatus Rhenanus, the "Rerum Germanicarum Libri III" (1531), and editions of Velleius Paterculus (1522), based on a manuscript he discovered. He...