Cato the Elder

were similar yet very different because they both felt the leaders had too much power and conspired to kill the powerful leaders. Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger was born June 85 B.C. in Philippi, Macedonia (now Greece) to Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder and Servilla Caepionis. However, it was rumored that Julius Caesar was his father. When Brutus was only eight years-old, his father surrender to…

according to Jocelyn Elders, former US Surgeon General, “That fear [that medical marijuana laws will increase teen use of marijuana], raised in 1996, when California passed the first effective medical-marijuana law, has not come true. According to the official California Student…

Is Livy’s account of the battle of Zama more successful as a piece of literature than a work of history? Livy wrote history. But, it differed from what is now typically described as a “good” history. He was more concerned with creating an accurate and useful account of moral history and of the history of characters than a purely factual recollection of events. His overall aim was to show how Rome became great, and to use that as a guide for securing future prosperity. Despite what many critics…

The application of pest control ranges from do-it-yourself arrangements to scientific and very precise deployment of chemicals and predatory insects by highly skilled practitioners. Despite the fact that pest control is a world-wide industry it is still dominated by family or 1-person businesses. Those that need to control pests range from householders to large scale agri-conglomerates who need to maximise their yield. In between these two are restaurants, bars, food production facilities,…

In this essay we shall discuss the Romans’ reaction to Greek culture whilst comparing their relations with other cultures. Therefore, it shall be necessary to consult both ancient and modern scholarship. In order to understand the Roman attitude to the Greeks we need to explore the various things which Rome absorbed from the Greeks into its own culture. Amongst these are the conflation of traditional Roman deities with their Greek counterparts, inspirations for literature and the social…

2 Ancient Rome was a male dominated society. Men in Ancient Rome lived privileged lives compared to the women. In Ancient Rome, the goal was to produce a male heir or heirs. Believe it or not, a girl born to a Roman was greeted with mourning, and it was not uncommon for a baby girl to be left to die. The pressure of having a son in Ancient Rome was huge. Yet, obviously not every girl in Ancient Rome was left to die. The women of Ancient Rome had many duties as well as the many rules that they…

Kirk Ormand is a classics professor at Oberlin University who specializes in sexuality in the ancient world. Throughout chapters eight, ten, and thirteen of his book Controlling Desires, Ormand looks at many aspects pertaining to Roman sexuality. An overarching theme of the three chapters looks at what was considered normal sexual behavior in Rome, with a focusing at times on homosexuality in Rome. Over the course of the chapters, Ormand looks at Rome’s origins and interrelation to Greece with…

Alcoholism is one of the many problems that exist in today’s society. It may not be one of the most talked about when compared to foreign problems, but it is evident across the globe and many people are affected by it daily. Alcoholism is detrimental to the well being of a person’s health, other people’s health, and carries risks towards a nation economically. People may think excessive drinking or even drinking in trivial amounts does not affect them, but in reality everyone experiences the…

The baby boomers represent the largest generation in American history consisting of about seventy-six million people [Gillon, 2004]. The special name for the boomers is derived primarily from its enormous size in comparison to the smaller generations that came immediately before and after that time period [Gillon, 2004]. There was not one previous generation that had been developed on such expansive hopes or had been so confident in their ability to change the world. According to Gillon [2004],…