Augustus

Roman emperor

Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27
BC until his death in AD 14. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy
equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. Wikipedia

Born: 63 BC, Rome, Italy

Died: August 19, 14 AD, Nola, Italy

Parents: Gaius Octavius, Atia Balba Caesonia, Julius Caesar

Successor: Tiberius

Children: Tiberius, Julia the Elder, Gaius Caesar, Lucius Caesar, Agrippa Postumus

Quotes

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions.

Nero
Roman emperor

Nero was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Nero was adopted by his grand-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor,
and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death. Wikipedia

Born: December 15, 37 AD, Antium, Italy

Died: June 9, 68 AD, Rome, Italy

Uncles: Caligula

Spouse: Sporus (m. 67 AD68 AD), more

Great-grandparents: Tiberius, Nero Claudius Drusus, Mark Antony, more

Parents: Agrippina the Younger, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus

Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor

Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as
co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. He was the last of the Five Good
Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.
Wikipedia

Born: April 26, 121 AD, Rome, Italy

Died: March 17, 180 AD, Vindobona

Children: Commodus, Lucilla, Marcus Annius Verus Caesar, more

Influenced by: Epictetus, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium

Quotes

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find
strength.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to
breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Trajan
Roman emperor

Trajan was Roman emperor from 98 AD until his death in 117 AD. Officially declared
by the Senate optimus princeps, Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-
emperor who presided over the greatest ... Wikipedia

Born: September 18, 53 AD, Italica

Died: August 9, 117 AD, Gazipaa, Turkey

Children: Hadrian

Spouse: Pompeia Plotina

Siblings: Ulpia Marciana

Parents: Marcia, Marcus Ulpius Traianus

Caligula
Roman emperor

Caligula was the popular nickname of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,
Roman emperor. Born Gaius Julius Caesar, Caligula was a member of the house of
rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Wikipedia

Born: August 31, 12 AD, Anzio, Italy

Successor: Claudius

Assassinated: January 24, 41 AD, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy

Nephews: Nero

Grandparents: Tiberius, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Nero Claudius Drusus, Antonia

Minor, Julia the Elder

Parents: Agrippina the Elder, Germanicus

Deucalion
(/djukelin/; Greek: ) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources
name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. He is closely connected with the
Flood myth, according to which, the anger of Zeus was ignited by the hubris of the
Pelasgians. So Zeus decided to put an end to the Bronze Age.

Pyrrha
(/pr/; Greek: ) was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of
Deucalion. When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge,
Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors. Even though he was
imprisoned, Prometheus who could see the future and had foreseen the coming of
this flood told his son, Deucalion, to build an ark and, thus, they survived. During
the flood, they landed on Mount Parnassus, the only place spared by the flood.
 Eros
(/rs/ or US /rs/, /ros/;[2] Greek: , "Desire")[3] was the Greek god of
love. His Roman counterpart was Cupid[4] ("desire"). Some myths make him a
primordial god, while in other myths, he is the son of Aphrodite. He was one of the
winged love gods, Erotes.

Orpheus
(/rfis, rfjus/; Greek: ) was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in
ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his
ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to
retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those
who could not hear his divine music.

Eurydice
was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played
joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, Aristaeus saw and
pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, was bitten, and died instantly.
Distraught, Orpheus played and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and deities
wept and told him to travel to the Underworld to retrieve her, which he gladly did.
After his music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone, his singing so sweet
that even the Erinyes wept, he was allowed to take her back to the world of the
living.

Hero and Leander

is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ancient Greek: , Hr; pron. like
"hero" in English), a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the
European side of the Hellespont (today's Dardanelles), and Leander (Ancient Greek:
, Landros), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.
Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to
be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.
 Leda and the Swan
is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the
form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda
bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor
and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In the W.
B.

Paris
(Ancient Greek: ), also known as Alexander (, Alxandros),[1] the
son of Priam and Hecuba, the king and queen of Troy, appears in a number of Greek
legends. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta,
this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War. Later in the war, he fatally
wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow, as foretold by Achilless mother, Thetis.
The name Paris is probably Luwian and comparable to Pari-zitis attested as a Hittite
scribe's name.[2]

Helen of Troy
(Greek Heln, pronounced [heln]), also known as Helen of Sparta, was
the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was a sister of Castor, Pollux, and
Clytemnestra. In Greek myths, she was considered the most beautiful woman in the
world. By marriage she was Queen of Laconia, a province within Homeric Greece,
the wife of King Menelaus. Her abduction by Paris, Prince of Troy, brought about the
Trojan War.

Baucis and Philemon

were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and
the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman
mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of
hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god
was involved.

hortus garden
id that

in in

index sign, indicator

iris rainbow

latex liquid

legere to read

librarium library

locus place

magnus great, very good

mare sea

mens mind

murus wall

musica music

nihil nothing

non not

nota note, remember

novus new

opus work

orbus world

placebo I will please

post after

post meridian after noon

primus first

pro for

sanus healthy

solus one, alone

sum I am
tacete be silent

tempus time

terra ground, land

urbs city

veni I came

vici I conquered

vidi I saw

Fates
The Fates were a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently
represented as a group of three mythological goddesses. They were often depicted
as weavers of a tapestry on a loom, with the tapestry dictating the destinies of men.

Erinyes
In Greek mythology the Erinyes, also known as Furies, were female chthonic deities
of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses".

Grace
is a theological term present in many religions. It has been defined as the divine
influence which operates in humans to regenerate and sanctify, to inspire virtuous
impulses, and to impart strength to endure trial and resist temptation; and as an
individual virtue or excellence of divine origin.

Muses
(in Greek and Roman mythology) each of nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus
and Mnemosyne, who preside over the arts and sciences.

synonyms: inspiration, creative influence, stimulus; formalafflatus

"the poet's muse"

a woman, or a force personified as a woman, who is the source of inspiration for a
creative artist.

noun: muse; plural noun: muses

synonyms: inspiration, creative influence, stimulus; formalafflatus

"the poet's muse".

The twelve labours of Heracles or Hercules (Greek: , hoi

Hrakleous athloi) are a series of episodes concerning a penance carried out by
Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later Romanised as
Hercules. They were accomplished over 12 years at the service of King Eurystheus.

The twelve labours of Heracles or Hercules (Greek: , hoi

Hrakleous athloi)[1][2] are a series of episodes concerning a penance carried out
by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later Romanised as
Hercules. They were accomplished over 12 years at the service of King Eurystheus.
The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative. The establishment of
a fixed cycle of twelve labours was attributed by the Greeks to an epic poem, now
lost, written by Peisander, dated about 600 BC.[3]

Punic Wars
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage
from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably the largest wars that had
ever taken place. Period: 264 BC 146 BC

Gracchus brothers
Tiberius and Gaius, were Romans who both served as tribunes in the late 2nd
century BC. They attempted to pass land reform legislation that would redistribute
the major aristocratic landholdings among the urban poor and veterans, in addition
to other reform measures.

Spartacus
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who, along with the Gauls Crixus, Oenomaus,
Castus and Gannicus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War,
a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Wikipedia
Born: 109 BC, Thrace

Died: 71 BC, Strongoli, Italy

Nationality: Roman

Battles and wars: Third Servile War

Marius and Sulla

Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla were two very different men whose paths
converged first on the battlefield and then in the political arena. Marius was a
novus homo from Arpinum whose ancestors were from a moderately distinguished
equestrian background. He made a name for himself by not only capturing King
Jugurtha of Numidia, but also by doing it his own way. Gaius Marius was responsible
for employing the capite censi in his army, who until this point was not allowed to
serve because of outdated property qualifications. One might even argue (with
justification) that this revolution led to the downfall of the Republic. In this
Jugurthan War, Marius had a lieutenant named Lucius Cornelius Sulla.