Calpurnius

Japanese: カルプルニウス - かるぷるにうす
Calpurnius

...Other prose writers include Petronius, author of the novel Satyricon; Pliny the Elder, author of the encyclopedia Natural History; Pliny the Younger, an orator who left behind a collection of letters; Columella, who left behind a book on agriculture; Suetonius, a biographer who wrote the Lives of the Emperors and the Lives of the Notables in the 2nd century; Apuleius, the philosopher and author of the novel The Metamorphoses; and Gellius, author of the Attic Nights. In the field of poetry, in addition to the tragedies of Seneca, there are the epic poems Lucan's Pharsalia, Silius Italicus' Punica, Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebais and Achilleus, and the non-epic poems Manilius' Astronomical Didactic, Phaedrus' Fables, Calpurnius' Idylls, Martialis' Epigrammas, and the Satires of Persius and Juvenal. All of them were written in the first century except for Juvenal, who composed them in the early second century.

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Japanese:

…またそのほかの散文作家には,小説《サテュリコン》の作者ペトロニウス,百科全書《博物誌》の著者の大プリニウス,《書簡集》を残した雄弁家の小プリニウス,農学書を残したコルメラ,2世紀に入って,《皇帝伝》と《名士伝》を著した伝記作家スエトニウス,哲学者で小説《黄金のろば(転身物語)》の作者アプレイウス,《アッティカ夜話》の著者ゲリウスなどがいる。 詩の分野ではセネカの悲劇のほかに,叙事詩ではルカヌスの《内乱(ファルサリア)》,シリウス・イタリクスの《プニカ》,ウァレリウス・フラックスの《アルゴナウティカ》,スタティウスの《テバイス》と《アキレイス》など,叙事詩以外ではマニリウスの教訓詩《天文譜》,ファエドルスの《寓話》,カルプルニウスCalpurniusの《牧歌》,マルティアリスの《エピグランマ》,それにペルシウスとユウェナリスそれぞれの《風刺詩》などがみられる。2世紀初頭に創作したユウェナリスのほかはすべて1世紀の詩人たちである。…

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