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| c. 185 BC |
| | Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC, create a Roman drama based on Greek originals | |
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| c. 160 BC |
| | The Roman statesman Cato the Elder writes Origines ('Origins'), a history of Rome which survives only in fragments | |
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| -81 BC |
| | Cicero, whose speeches become models of oratory, makes his first appearance in a Roman court | |
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| 37 BC |
| | Virgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues, influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his birth near Mantua | |
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| c. 34 BC |
| | Maecenas buys a farm for Horace, in the Sabine hills near Tivoli - the most fruitful of his many acts of patronage | |
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| 27 BC |
| | Livy begins writing and publishing his History of Rome, a task which will occupy him for forty years | |
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