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11 Cards in this Set
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Wrote "The Republic, Laws" Optimate, consul, orator, atomist, stoic
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Cicero
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wrote "meditations of ___ ___" Stoic during later part of the Golden Age
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Marcus Aurelius
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two great Roman leaders who wrote well, the first a poet and historyian, he second, wrote of his conquests of Gaul and Asia
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Augustus Ceaser
Julius Caesar |
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Not a playwrite by trade, an intellectual, teacher to young Nero, removed the art and just left the amusement
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Seneca
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Rome's great historian, wrote "Histories" and "Annals"
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Tacitus
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Greece's great historian
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Thucydides
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Other great roman writer, wrote "natural history", not everything he wrote was true
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Pliny the Elder
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architecture that shows the sacking of Jerusalem
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Arch of Titus
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scientist who talked about the solar system, planets followed a general deferent(orbit) with smaller orbits (epicycles)
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Ptolemy
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developed steam engine
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Hero
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Galen
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physicial after the great Hippocrates for Greece, learned a lot about anatomy because of the gladiators
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