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Cicero was a leading political figure, great orator, and great writer
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An epicurean poet. He hoped to reform the declining moral standards of Rome
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A great Roman poet
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a friend of Virgil, the "poet of the Augustan age"
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A historian whos work provides an in depth look at the lives of the Romans.
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A Poet who wrote about mythology and love
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Roman Emperor during Jesus' lifetime.
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Ended the civil war and brought about an era of peace (pax romana)
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A period of peace and prosperity
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A pharisee who persecuted the Jews until he became a christian and spread the gospel.
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A stoic. The tutor of emperor Nero, a noteworthy writer and thinker.
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God's son, sent to redeem mankind.
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The first christian martyr
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A Jewish historian who recorded the conflict against the Jews and Romans, and advised against resistance.
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Emperor who first began official christian persecution. Accused the Christians of setting fire to Rome.
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Roman governor, sentenced Jesus to death by crucifixion because of Jewish demands.
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Roman commander who attacked Jerusalem.
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The most famous Greek writer in the Roman empire. He wrote biographies that compared important Greek and Roman men.
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A historian who favored the old republic over the self centered Romans of his time. Wrote annals, and Germania.
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Poet who wrote bitter satires on moral problems of the society.
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The leader of the church at Smyrna, eventually martyred.
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The walls of Jerusalem were breached, the temple was looted, and the city was destroyed.
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the city of Pompeii is destroyed by Mt Vesuvius erupting
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a 160 ft tall stadium, where gladiators fought, and Christians were later martyred.
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an Alexandrian astronomer who promoted the theory that the universe was geocentric.
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A Greek physician who made advancements in medicine by experimentation with animals
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A stoic, scholar, and philosopher. One of the last "good" emperors, his death marks the end of the Pax Romana.
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A heretic who disrupted the unity of the church by challenging the deity of Christ.
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Emperor that led the most widespread persecution of Christians.
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Roman emperor who made Christianity legal.
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The Roman emperor Constantine made Christianity legal with this edict, ending 300 years of christian persecution.
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A council presided over by Constantine which affirmed Christs deity and the doctrine of the trinity, and branded Arianism a heresy.
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A barbarian tribe called the Visigoths defeated the Roman army and killed the Emperor.
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A Barbarian nomadic tribe from the east, they drove Germanic tribes, like the Visigoths into Roman territory.
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Made Christianity the official religion of the Roman State. Later divided the Roman Empire in two.
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Theodosius divided the Roman Empire in two for his sons.
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King of the Visigoths who led the plundered of Rome.
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Leader of the Huns
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Another barbarian Tribe that attacked a few years after the Huns, who raided and pillaged Rome again.
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The year the army placed a non Roman on the Emperors throne.
