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