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| 23 BC |
| | The first three books of Horace's Odes are published, written on his Sabine farm | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | The excellence of the arts, particularly literature, during the reign of Augustus Caesar causes it to be remembered as a golden age of culture | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores, brings Ovid an early success | |
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| 19 BC |
| | Virgil dies just after completing the Aeneid, and imperial command from Augustus Caesar prevents his executor from destroying the epic | |
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| 98 |
| | Tacitus begins his career with two specialized but influential works of history, one on Britain and the other on Germany | |
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| c. 125 |
| | Suetonius, librarian to Trajan and personal secretary to Hadrian, is well placed to research his racy Lives of the Caesars | |
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| c. 170 |
| | Marcus Aurelius is rare among emperors in writing twelve books of philosophical Meditations | |
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| c. 244 |
| | Plotinus, moving from Alexandria to Rome, teaches the influential philosophy later known as Neo-Platonism | |
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| c. 525 |
| | Boethius, in prison in Pavia and awaiting execution, writes the Consolation of Philosophy | |
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| c. 1595 |
| | The writings of Matteo Ricci introduce Kung Fu Tzu to Europe under a Latin version of his name - Confucius | |
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