Which writers are associated with the Silver Age of Latin literature?

The Silver Age of Latin literature, spanning approximately 18 to 133 CE, was a period of significant literary production characterized by a cosmopolitan outlook and an elaborate, poetical prose style.1

The following writers are associated with this era:

• Historians: Tacitus and Suetonius.12
• Satirists: Juvenal, Martial, Petronius, and Persius.12
• Philosophers and Rhetoricians: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the younger) and his father, Seneca the Elder, as well as the critic Quintilian.123
• Poets and Epicists: Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Manilius.12
• Other Prose Writers: Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.12

While the period followed the "Golden Age," it remained a time of marked achievement, despite the challenges posed by political patronage and the influence of various emperors.12