MFG 201 Chapter 13 Roman Science

Wrote "The Republic, Laws" Optimate, consul, orator, atomist, stoic

Cicero

wrote "meditations of ___ ___" Stoic during later part of the Golden Age

Marcus Aurelius

two great Roman leaders who wrote well, the first a poet and historyian, he second, wrote of his conquests of Gaul and Asia

Augustus Ceaser
Julius Caesar

Not a playwrite by trade, an intellectual, teacher to young Nero, removed the art and just left the amusement

Seneca

Rome's great historian, wrote "Histories" and "Annals"

Tacitus

Greece's great historian

Thucydides

Other great roman writer, wrote "natural history", not everything he wrote was true

Pliny the Elder

architecture that shows the sacking of Jerusalem

Arch of Titus

scientist who talked about the solar system, planets followed a general deferent(orbit) with smaller orbits (epicycles)

Ptolemy

developed steam engine

Hero

Galen

physicial after the great Hippocrates for Greece, learned a lot about anatomy because of the gladiators