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The Loeb Classical Library: SilvaeStatius Silvae, thirty two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct pictorial quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitians Rome.

a 'Discendum' box

While the Historia Augusta is our most detailed surviving source for the second and third centuries

Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a Roman citizen and advocate

and legal details animates the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises

Proud of his earlier defeat of the Sphinx

love and revenge

Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms

especially the Stoics

4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human race more dear

and later under Cato in Africa—a chronicle of dramatic events carrying us from Caesar’s fateful crossing of the Rubicon

the Letters (more than eighty)

and finally post-classical Greek