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43 relations: Ancient Rome, Beirut, Caesius Bassus, Etruscan civilization, First Alcibiades, Herodas, Hexameter, History of Rome, Horace, Isaac Casaubon, Johann Friedrich Dübner, John Conington, John the Lydian, Juvenal, List of satirists and satires, Lucan, Lucilia (gens), Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Michel de Montaigne, Middle Ages, Otto Jahn, Pharsalia, Philistinism, Pierre Pithou, Pisa, Plato, Poet, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Remmius Palaemon, Rhetoric, Satire, Satires (Juvenal), Scholia, Second Alcibiades, Seneca the Younger, Sophron, Stoicism, Suetonius, Theocritus, Tragedy, Virgil, Volterra.
Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Beirut
Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
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Caesius Bassus
Caesius Bassus was a Roman lyric poet who lived in the reign of Nero.
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Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful and wealthy civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Lazio.
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First Alcibiades
The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I (Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ) is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates.
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Herodas
The first column of the Herodas papyrus, showing ''Mimiamb'' 1. 1–15. Herodas (Greek: Ἡρώδας), or Herondas (the name is spelt differently in the few places where he is mentioned), was a Greek poet and the author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse, probably written in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC.
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Hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet.
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History of Rome
Roman history has been among the most influential to the modern world, from supporting the tradition of the rule by law to influencing the American Founding Fathers to the creation of the Catholic church.
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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).
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Isaac Casaubon
Isaac Casaubon (18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned man in Europe.
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Johann Friedrich Dübner
Johann Friedrich Dübner (20 December 180213 December 1867) was a German classical scholar (naturalized a Frenchman).
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John Conington
John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.
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John the Lydian
John the Lydian or John Lydus (Ἰωάννης Λαυρέντιος ὁ Λυδός; Ioannes Laurentius Lydus) was a 6th-century Byzantine administrator and writer on antiquarian subjects.
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Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.
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List of satirists and satires
Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.
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Lucan
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, 39 AD – April 30, 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba (modern-day Córdoba), in Hispania Baetica.
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Lucilia (gens)
The gens Lucilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.
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Lucius Annaeus Cornutus
Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (Ἀνναῖος Κορνοῦτος), a Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of Nero (c. 60 AD), when his house in Rome was a school of philosophy.
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Marcus Valerius Probus
Marcus Valerius Probus (c. 20/30 – 105 AD) of Berytus, was a Roman grammarian and critic, who flourished during Nero's reign.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Otto Jahn
Otto Jahn (16 June 1813 in Kiel – 9 September 1869 in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.
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Pharsalia
De Bello Civili (On the Civil War), more commonly referred to as the Pharsalia, is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great.
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Philistinism
In the fields of philosophy and æsthetics, the derogatory term philistinism describes “the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine”, manifested as an anti-intellectual social attitude that undervalues and despises art and beauty, intellect and spirituality.
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Pierre Pithou
Pierre Pithou (1 November 1539 – 1 November 1596) was a French lawyer and scholar.
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Pisa
Pisa is a city in the Tuscany region of Central Italy straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
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Plato
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Poet
A poet is a person who creates poetry.
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Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus
Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (died 66 AD), Roman senator, lived in the 1st century AD.
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Remmius Palaemon
Quintus Remmius Palaemon or Quintus Rhemnius Fannius Palaemon.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Satires (Juvenal)
The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the early 2nd centuries AD.
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Scholia
Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author, as glosses.
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Second Alcibiades
The Second Alcibiades or Alcibiades II (Ἀλκιβιάδης βʹ) is a dialogue traditionally ascribed to Plato.
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger AD65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
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Sophron
Sophron of Syracuse (Σώφρων ὁ Συρακούσιος, fl. 430 BC) was a writer of mimes.
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Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC.
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Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (c. 69 – after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
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Theocritus
Theocritus (Θεόκριτος, Theokritos; fl. c. 270 BC), the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC.
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Tragedy
Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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Volterra
Volterra is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy of which its history dates to before the 7th century BC and has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
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