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| Trojan hero that founded the city of Rome. |
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| wrote the first history of Rome and Italy in Latin, a manual of agriculture, and an encyclopedia |
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was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He was member of a wealthy family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.[1][2]
Cicero is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher.
was a "novus homo" new man |
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| poeta (maker) that wrote tragedies and comedies, a poem on gastronomy, satura on misc. topics, and "Chronicles" (Rome's national epic) |
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Tiberrius Sempronius Gracchus tribune 133 BC
-bill to use the lands of italy taken in the period of expansion
-the land was to be parceled out to peasant farmers
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a Carthaginian military commander
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| Brave Roman Soldier who stood up to the Etruscans on the bridge over the Tiber River |
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| was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.He centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity" (dictator perpetuo). A group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC |
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| beginning of satire in Rome |
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| While under Etruscan rule, Rome had been the greatest power among the Latins, and Rome had been resented by the other Latins. Also freed from Etruscan rule, these other Latins warred against Rome over disputed lands and to free themselves from Rome's hegemony. Rome avoided the vanity that in future millennia was to plague some great powers. Rather than put vanity first, Rome abandoned its claim of hegemony in Latium. Rather than gripped by paranoaic fear of weakness, the Romans saw advantage in peace and cooperation. In 493, Rome joined an alliance with its Latin neighbors as an equal. |
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| was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family at Rome by translating Greek works into Latin, including Homer’s Odyssey. |
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| Livy portrays crucial events of the Roman past |
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dictator from 81 to 79 BC
he was the first to turn a Roman army against the city of Rome |
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| her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic. |
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| Gaius Cilnius Maecenas 13 April 70 BC –October 8 BC was a confidant and political advisor to Octavian (who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets. |
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| He was the Guardian of Peace. Numa focused on religion and created the Lunar calendar, where there were days of work and days of rest). |
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3rd century comic playwright
his plays are based on Greek originals and about trickery. |
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