Sulpicia – Roman poetry – ancient Rome
Not really Sulpicia: A woman from Roman Egypt, holding a notebook and a pen Who was Sulpicia? Sulpicia is one of very few Roman women whose poetry managed to last through the [...]
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Suetonius – Roman historian – Lives of the Caesars
A manuscript of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, copied out in Austria in the 1470s Suetonius lived just a little later than Seneca, during the reign of the Flavian emperors and then [...]
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Seneca – Roman philosophy – ancient Rome
Seneca, the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca was one of the great writers of the Julio-Claudianperiod in Rome. He was born in the Roman province of Spain about 3 BC. But his [...]
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Polybius and the rise of Rome – Roman history
Snow in Athens (thanks BBC!) Polybius (po-LIB-ee-us) was a rich Greek man, who was born in the Greek city of Athens, about 200 BC. When the Romans conquered his city-state, they demanded some hostages from that [...]
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Plautus – Roman plays – ancient Rome
Actors in ancient Rome During the Roman Republic, when the Romans first began to go to plays, there weren't any plays written in Latin, only plays in Greek. Plautus (PLAW-tuss or PLOW-tuss) was [...]
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Ovid and the Metamorphoses – Roman literature
Part of a page from a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses (South Italy, 1000s AD, just as the Normans were conquering it) When did Ovid live? With the end of the Roman [...]
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Echo and Narcissus – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – ancient Rome
Narcissus and his pond (Third Style Roman painting from Pompeii, about 79 AD) - Echo and Narcissus Where is Echo's story from? Echo and Narcissus is a story we know [...]
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Livy – Roman historian – History of Rome
The Roman historian Livy wrote about Hannibal. One of Hannibal's coins shows a man riding an elephant. When did Livy live? Livy was a Roman historian who was born in [...]
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Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome
Latin literature: A Roman papyrus scroll from a library of Epicurean philosophy (Herculaneum, Italy) Where did Latin come from? The Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was [...]
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Pliny the Elder – Roman literature and Pompeii
Mt. Vesuvius Who was Pliny the Elder? Pliny the Elder was a very rich man from one of the most important families in the Roman Empire. He lived during the [...]
