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Ancient Rome
Pax Romana
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History
10th Grade
11/27/2006

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Galen
Definition
physician- wrote several volumes summerizing all medical knowledge
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Ptolemy
Definition
astronomy- came up with the theory that the earth was the center of the universe (accepted till 1600s A.D.)
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Elementry School
Definition
@ age 7- learn writting, arithmetic, music
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Secondary School
Definition
@ age 12- learn grammar, greek, literature, composition, expressive speech
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Rhetoric
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@ age 16- learn oratory, geometry, astronomy, philosophy
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Cicero
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-great orator
-political works
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Virgil
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-greatest roman poet
-Aeneid
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Horace
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-wrote about human emotions
-odes, satires, esistles
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Ovid
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-love lyrics
-metamorphases
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Tacitus
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-historian
-annals(history of Rome under Julian Emperors)
-Germania (account of German Tribes)
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Plutarch
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parallel lives
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Literatrue
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Strong Greek Influence
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