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Terms | Definitions |
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 Caesar | (100 BCE-15 March 44 BCE) Roman general and statesman; distinguished writer of Latin prose. He was considered during his lifetime to be one of the best orators and authors of prose in Rome. Wrote numerous commentaries/memoirs about the wars he waged in Gaul, Alexandria, Hispania, and the Civil Wars in Rome. |
| Horace | (65 BCE-8 BCE) Roman lyric poet. Themes of his work include generalized satire and literary criticism. He gives a vivid picture of comtemporary Roman society and presents a detailed picture of the golden age of Rome under Augustus. |
| Juvenal | (47-130 CE) Roman satirical poet. His verse was generally an indignant satirical attack on contemporary policies, social situations and personalities. |
| Cicero | (106-43 BC) was one of the most influential players in the period of Rome's latee Republic. He was a conservative statesman, politician, lawyer, and defender of Republican principles. Generally regarded as the greatest orator in history, he was an opponent and sometimes rival to Caesar. |
| Ovid | (43 BCE-18 CE) Last of the Augustan Age poets. Born of Equestrian rank. Though never having served in the military, he began his training as a lawyer. He eventually turned to poetry and produced works such as AMORES (in which he dispenses advice about love) and the METAMORPHOSES, the most extensie collection of mythological tales woven together in one epic poem. |
| Plautus | (c.254-184 BCE) was one of Rome's greatest playwrights. His plays were mainly derived from Greek works belonging to the New Comedy Style. New Comedy plays were essentially social comedies of manners usually featuring the domestic life of the middle and upper classes. Word play, puns, and comedies of errors. |
| Pliny the Elder | (23-79 CE) Roman naturalist. His single surviving work HISTORIA NATURALIS, is a rich in depth encyclopedia on natural science in the Roman world. He covered geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, medicines and mineralogy. |
| Seneca | (3 BCE-65 CE) Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman. After studying rheotoric and philosophy he became famous as an orator and served as a full member of the Senate. He was the tutor of the young future emperor Nero. |
| Tacitus | (56 CE-117 CE) Senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the ANNALS and the HISTORIES—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. |
| Terrence | (195/185-159 BCE). Playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170-160 BCE. All of the six plays he wrote have survived. |
| Tertullian | (c. 160 - c. 225 CE). Early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. Has been called ―"The father of Latin Christianity" and ―"The Founder of Western theology" |
| Vergil | (70 BC - 19 BC) is the mostly highly regarded of all Roman poets. His rural farm life had a significant impact on his work and his first published pieces, the ECLOGUES were a testament to rural life. He wrote the epic poem the AENEID. He was an influential member of the Roman literary circle of the Augustan age, and was a contemporary of Maecenas and Emperor Augustus himself. |
| Zeno | (c. 490 BCE - 430 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic (a method of argument for resolving disagreements). He is best known for his paradoxes (self-contradictory or counter-intuitive statements or arguments). |
| Euclid | (fl. 300 BCE) Greek mathematician, often referred to as the ―"Father of Geometry". His book, the Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics (especially geometry) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century |
| Erasmus | (1466 -1536 CE). Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, early proponent of religious toleration, and theologian. He wrote in a pure Latin style and enjoyed the nickname ―"Prince of the Humanists". He prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. |
| St. Jerome | (c. 347 CE -420 CE) Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian who became a Doctor of the Church. He is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the VULGATE). |
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