Favorite Roman Text/Roman Author/Poet

[Carlton Bach]

I am not generally fond of Greco-Roman literature - it is too contrived for my taste. Give me Biblical epic any time. But I will make a happy exception for Martialis and Juvenal, and Petronius.

Nonetheless, my favourites are strictly speaking nonfiction writers, Athenaios of Naucratis (Deipnosophists) and Pliny the Elder (Natural History). They are so much more fun to read than any poet I have yet come across.