Expressions, Mottoes, Abbreviations
Translation: Cogito ergo sum
I think therefor I am
Term for devotion and duty to gods and Rome
pietas
Who is the pied piper of the lyre who followed his wife to the underworld but he came back without her.
Orpheus
First emperor of Rome who finds Rome cement and leaves it marble: Pax Romana, Julian Laws, banishes Ovid & Julia; marries Livia
Augustus
Patriotic epic Poet Golden Age
Vergil
Transla: In medias res
into the middle (of a) thing
Term for seriousness of conduct, manner
gravitas
Orpheus' dead bride/wife
Eurydice
Friend and political advisor to Octavian; patron of the new generation of poets Vergil and Horace.
Maecenas
Slapstick humor, high spirited Roman poet of Silver age Comedy
Plautus
Transla: res ipsa loquitur
(the) thing speaks (for) itself
The philosophy which rejects "determinism" (no free will); embrace restrained hedonism; mental pleasure is better than physical pleasure. No fear of death or gods.
Epicureanism
The Romeo and Juliet archetype from Ovid
Pyramus & Thisbe
Leading lyric poet of the Odes, Epodes, and Satires under Augustus.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Female Greek poet of 6th BCE greatly influenced Catullus
Sappho
a wonderful/miraculous saying
Philosophy for which virtue is happiness; world is ordered by gods; greater good; maximize the positive (eliminate the negative).
Stoicism
The hospitable elderly couple who welcomed Jupiter & Mercury. Their reward was to die together as a tree.
Baucis & Philemon
The emperor with the WALL (117 -138 CE) as he limited the provinces; rebuilt the Pantheon; and rebuilt temple in Egypt and Greece.
Hadrian
Greek epic poet whose stories of the Trojan war greatly influenced Vergil
Homer
Transla: dux femina facti
the leader of the deed (was) a woman
She utters the oracles, prophecies of the gods; foretell the future.
Sibyls
She is so beautiful, Venus is jealous and Cupid falls in love with her. She is warned to never try to see her immortal lover, but she is curious.
Psyche
The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. His spiritual conversion was by some thought to be political.
Constantine
Wrote the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, but most importantly: Metamorphoses
Ovid