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2nd-century Romans

IrenaeusIrenaeus was a Greek bishop who, around the year 180, sat down to dismantle a rival vision of Christianity that promised secret wisdom to a chosen few.
TertullianQuintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, writing from Carthage around the turn of the third century, asked a question that still echoes through the history of…
Cassius DioCassius Dio spent ten years collecting every Roman achievement from the city's founding through the death of Septimius Severus in 211 AD, then spent twelve…
JuvenalThe name Decimus Junius Juvenalis appears in a single inscription found at Aquinum, yet the life of this Roman poet remains shrouded in speculation.
Clement of AlexandriaClement of Alexandria spent years wandering the ancient world before he ever arrived in Alexandria. Born around 150 AD under the full Roman name Titus…
PtolemyPtolemy lived sometime around 100 to 170 AD, and in that span he wrote about a dozen scientific treatises that would shape how people understood the heavens…
MartialMartial, the Roman poet born in Bilbilis in Hispania, left behind 1,561 epigrams that read less like literature and more like dispatches from the crowded…
SuetoniusSuetonius, the Roman historian born around AD 69, spent his career collecting the secrets of emperors. He recorded the earliest known accounts of Julius…
Gaius (jurist)Gaius was a Roman jurist who flourished between roughly AD 130 and 180, and yet almost nothing is known about who he actually was.
Maximinus ThraxMaximinus Thrax became Roman emperor in 235 without ever having sat in the Senate, without ever having governed a province, and without any of the social…
Pliny the YoungerPliny the Younger watched a cloud rise from a mountain across the Bay of Naples and described it as resembling a pine tree, its trunk shooting upward before…
PlutarchPlutarch, the Greek philosopher and biographer born in the small town of Chaeronea in the region of Boeotia, left behind a body of work that shaped how…
LucianLucian of Samosata once described himself sailing past the Pillars of Heracles, only to be swept up by a whirlwind and dropped onto the Moon.
HerodianHerodian, writing in Greek sometime around the 3rd century, set himself a task that no other historian of his era attempted in quite the same way.
MacrinusMacrinus, born around 165 in Caesarea - the city now called Cherchell in modern Algeria - became Roman emperor in April 217 without ever having set foot in…
PudentianaPudentiana was a Christian virgin and martyr of the second century who refused to worship the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities.
ApuleiusApuleius was born around 124 AD in Madauros, a colonia on the North African coast, and he described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian." He left behind…
PapinianPapinian died on the orders of an emperor he had served for decades, his body dragged through the streets of Rome after he refused to defend a fratricide.
FrontinusFrontinus received the surrender of 70,000 Lingones in AD 70. That single figure, recorded in his own hand, captures something essential about Sextus Julius…
Apollodorus of DamascusApollodorus of Damascus built a bridge across the Danube wide enough to carry an army. He raised a column in Rome that had never been attempted before.