Persius

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Persius was a 1st-century Roman Stoic poet best known for his six dense, morally charged verse satires critiquing social and literary corruption.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin author
Roman poet
Stoic philosopher
satirist
ageAtDeath 27 or 28
birthDate 34
birthPlace Etruria NERFINISHED
Italy NERFINISHED
Volterra NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath illness
citizenship Ancient Rome NERFINISHED
Roman Empire
cognomen Flaccus NERFINISHED
Persius NERFINISHED
contemporaryOf Lucan NERFINISHED
Seneca the Younger NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Roman Empire NERFINISHED
criticized hypocrisy
literary affectation
luxury
deathDate 62
educatedAt Rome NERFINISHED
friend Lucan NERFINISHED
Thrasea Paetus NERFINISHED
fullName Aulus Persius Flaccus NERFINISHED
genre satire
verse satire
givenName Aulus NERFINISHED
hasWorkType hexameter poetry
influencedBy Horace NERFINISHED
Lucilius NERFINISHED
Stoic philosophy
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
literaryPeriod Silver Age of Latin literature NERFINISHED
mainTheme literary corruption
moral criticism
social corruption
moralPhilosophy Stoic ethics
movement Stoicism NERFINISHED
notableWork Satires NERFINISHED
numberOfWorks 6
patron Lucius Annaeus Cornutus NERFINISHED
posthumousPublicationBy Cornutus NERFINISHED
studentOf Cornutus NERFINISHED
styleCharacteristic allusive language
dense expression
moral earnestness
workCount one surviving book
wroteDuringReignOf Nero NERFINISHED

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