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The Davidiad is an epic poem that details the ascension and deeds of David, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.. The Davidiad (also known as the Davidias [1]) is the name of an heroic epic poem in Renaissance Latin by the Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist Marko Marulić (whose name is sometimes Latinized as "Marcus Marulus").
The poem was rediscovered c. 1416–1417 by the Italian humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini, who had a copy made from which the modern text derives. Upon its rediscovery, the Astronomica was read, commented upon, and edited by a number of scholars, most notably Joseph Justus Scaliger , Richard Bentley , and A. E. Housman .
The poem itself implies that the writer lived under Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in Rome, suggesting that Manilius wrote the work during the 20s CE. According to the early 18th-century classicist Richard Bentley , he was an Asiatic Greek ; according to the 19th-century classicist Fridericus Jacob, an African .
Marcus Atilius, of the Atilia gens, was one of the early Roman poets, a comic playwright who lived around the 2nd century BCE. He is classed among the comic poets of Rome by Roman literary critic Volcacius Sedigitus , who assigns him the fifth place among them in order of merit, after Caecilius , Plautus , Naevius , and Licinius Imbrex [ de ...
Nemesianus wrote a poem on hunting ; a fragment, 325 hexameter lines, has been preserved. It is neatly expressed in good Latin, and was used as a school textbook by Hincmar of Reims in the 9th century AD. The spoof work Historia Augusta gives to "Olympius Nemesianus" a work on the arts of fishing (Halieutica) and one on sailing (Nautica).
A bust of Cicero, depicted at the age of around 60. Pro Caelio is a speech given on 4 April 56 BC, by the famed Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus, who had once been Cicero's pupil but more recently had become estranged from him.
Octavius is an early writing in defense of Christianity by the Roman Marcus Minucius Felix. It is written in the form of a dialogue between the pagan Caecilius Natalis and the Christian Octavius Januarius, a provincial lawyer, the friend and fellow-student of the author.
Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian, and playwright. He is best known for his 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life, about the convict system in Australia, and widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature.