times. Literature reached its culmination in this epoch, especially in the great poets of the Augustan Age. The following writers belong here: Lucretius, about 95–55 B.C. (Poem on Epicurean Philosophy). Catullus, 87-about 54 B.C. (Poet). Cicero, 106–43 B.C. (Orations; Rhetorical Works; Philosophical Works; Letters). Caesar, 102–44 B.C. (Commentaries on Gallic and Civil Wars), Sallust, 86–36 B.C. (Historian). Nepos, about 100-about 30 B.C. (Historian). Virgil, 70–19 B.C. (“Aeneid”; “Georgics”; “Bucolics”).