Roman era humorists Roman era humorists Lucius Apuleius (c. A.D. 123/ 5 - c. A.D. 180), an utterly Romanized Berber who described himself as "half- Numidian half- Gaetulian", is remembered most for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel The Golden Ass or, in Latin, the Aureus Asinus (where the Latin word aureus - golden - connoted an element of blessed luckiness). ...more on Wikipedia about "Apuleius"
This article is about the Roman author Petronius. For other uses of the name, see Petronius (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Petronius"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (ca. 4 BC–AD 65) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seneca the Younger"
Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. His date of birth is unknown, but his comedies were performed for the first time ca. 170 BC- 160 BC, and he died young in 159 BC. He wrote six plays, all of which have survived (by comparison, his predecessor Plautus wrote twenty-one extant plays). ...more on Wikipedia about "Terence"
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