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11Gladiator — For other uses, see Gladiator (disambiguation). Part of the Zliten mosaic from Libya (Leptis Magna), about 2nd century CE. It shows (left to right) a thraex fighting a murmillo, a hoplomachus standing with another murmillo (who is signaling his… …
12Helvetii — The Helvetii were a Celtic tribe and the main occupants of the Swiss plateau in the 1st century BC. They are prominently featured in Julius Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic War. The Neolatin title of Switzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica… …
13Marcus Aurelius — Not to be confused with Aurelian. Marcus Aurelius 16th Emperor of the Roman Empire Bust of Marcus Aurelius in the Glyptothek, Munich …
14Cleopatra VII — Cleopatra redirects here. For other uses, see Cleopatra (disambiguation). Cleopatra VII Philopator …
15Publius Clodius Pulcher — (c. 93 BC – December 52 BC,[1] on 18 Ianuarius of the pre Julian calendar) was a Roman politician known for his popularist tactics. As tribune, he pushed through an ambitious legislative program, including a grain dole, but is chiefly remembered… …
16Loeb Classical Library — The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience …
17Fortuna — For other uses, see Fortuna (disambiguation). Fortuna governs the circle of the four stages of life, the Wheel of Fortune, in a manuscript of Carmina Burana Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and… …
18Asconius Pedianus — Quintus Asconius Pedianus (c. 9 BC c. AD 76), Roman grammarian and historian, was probably a native of Patavium (Padua).In his later years he resided in Rome, and there he died, after having been blind for twelve years, at the age of eighty five …
19Philodemus — of Gadara (in Greek Polytonic|Φιλόδημος) (Gadara, Coele Syria, c. 110 BCE ndash;probably Herculaneum c. 40/35 BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet who studied with Zeno of Sidon, head of the school in the Garden of Epicurus, outside Athens …
20Libel (poetry) — Libel is a verse genre primarily of the Renaissance, descended from the tradition of invective in classical Greek and Roman poetry. Libel is usually expressly political, and balder and coarser than satire. Libels were generally not published but… …
