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Silver age of Latin literature

In reference to Roman literature, the Silver age covers the first two centuries A.D. directly after the Golden age (which was the first century B.C., and the start of the first century A.D.)

Literature from the Silver age is considered inferior to that of the Gold age.

Some writers of the silver age include Petronius, Seneca, Phaedrus, Persius, Quintilian, Lucan, Statius Tacitus, Martial, Juvenal, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Marcus Aurelius, Aulus, Gellius, and Apuleius.

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