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| Mark Anthony | soldier and statesman at end of Roman Republic;friend of Julius Caesar; Cleopatra's last lover |
| Marcus Aurelius | the last of the five "good" emperors; a major Stoic and philosopher |
| Augustine of Hippo | one of the eight great doctors of the Christian Church and possibly the most influential philosopher ever |
| Marcus Brutus | close friend of Julius Caesar;betrayed him and helped stab him to death;Beware the Ides of March |
| Augustus Caesar | the first emperor of Rome and one of the best; named August after himself |
| Calligula | his name means "little boots"; he was cruel and performed strange sexual acts;considered insane |
| Cicero | statesman, orator and philosopher |
| Cinncinnatus | Roman farmer, dictator and consul; he gained fame as a model of Roman virtue and lack of ambition |
| Claudius | suffered from physical infirmities, especially stuttering; was very intelligent and read Etruscan; was poisoned by his wife |
| Constantine I | his mother was St Helen; was the first Roman emperor to become a Christian and support Christianity |
| Hadrian | worked on reforms and consolidated the Roman provinces; built a wall across Britain to protect its citizens form Picts; his wall was the northernmost boundary of Roman empire |
| Horace | the major lyric Latin poet of the Augustan era |
| Isidore | San Isidro was archbishop of Seville and a medieval scholar; wrote a 20 volume history of the world called Origines |
| Julius Caesar | the most famous Roman of all;conquered Gaul (France); Cleopatra's first Roman lover;July is named after him |
| Livy | Roman historian who wrote 'From the Founding of the City'; equal to publishing one 300 page book each year for 40 years |
| Livia | the first empress, wife of Augustus |
| Lucretia | a model of womanly virtue who committed suicide after she was raped |
| Nero | the most notorioius Roman; probably insane; blamed Christians for the Great Fire of Rome |
| Ovid | the most prolific Roman poet who influenced Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante and Milton;Ars Amatoria and Amores give us a look at the social and private lifes of Ancient Rome |
| Pliny | name of two Roman writers;the elder was in command of the fleet at Misenum who tried to rescue residents of Pompeii |
| Romulus | was the first king of Rome and killed his twin brother |
| Seneca | wrote Oedipus version that was accessible to modern audiences |
| Spartacus | gladiator who stood up to Rome |
| Virgil | wrote the Aeneid; along with Seneca, Cicero, Ovid, Aristotle and Plato, one of the most influential writers in world literature; continuously read throughout Middle Ages |
