Who was the most prolific Roman writer of all time?

Answer 1

There are many actually, and it depends what genre. Poetry, Epistulae (Letters), Epic, History? However, if you look at just the Augustan age, the time of Augustus Caesar from 31 BC to 19 AD lets say, then Horace wrote many Carmina or Odes as well as other types of work called Satires, Epistles, and Epodes. They discuss the shortness of life and how we should live in the day, enjoy life. Carpe Diem comes from his Ode 11 from book I of the 4 books of Odes. He also is funny and witty as well. He also has a poem called the Ars Poetica.

So there is Horace, but also there were others: Vergil, wrote the Aeneid and the Georgics, Livy, the Histories, Ovid, the Metamorphoses and Love poetry, plus other works.

Before Horace it would be Cicero, the Roman senator. After Horace, maybe Seneca.