consists of 15 books and over 250 myths ,it is the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. it is natural for those superior in power to have slaves, necessary solution for those conquered in war Ovid - Metamorphoses Ethiopians, Celts, Scythians, and indians Aristotle - Politics breaks the world into 4 regions of people wrote about how ethiopians have physical differences and cultural differences (they go naked, were the first humans, their personality is wild) Strabo - Geography wrote about Julius Caesar's great accomplishments in war, and how he showed mercy to the enemy by enslaving them instead of killing them Diodorus of Sicily -Library
De Re Rustica in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on Roman agriculture Plutarch - Life of Julius Caesar Columella was a prominent writer on agriculture Epic poem central to Greek mythology, regarded as core to the "Classics", takes place in final year of Troy Columella - De Re Rustica ("On Agriculture") Originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans, was a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Rome Empire. Herodotus was the first true historian known in western civilization. a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars that he called the Histories.
King Philips' War It was the Native-American's last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England Chattel Slavery traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as commodities Middle Passage the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies Jim Crow Laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the south Great Migration the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 19 to escape segregation Civil Rights Movement struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States Herodotus -The Persian War Aethiopia a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region, also known as Ethiopia. A mourning poem or funeral song.The format consists of couplets, and the second line is longer than the first. The latifundia of Roman history were great landed estates specializing in agriculture destined for export: grain, olive oil, or wine Ethnos Greek word created to distinguish an ethnic group agape universal love, such as the love for strangers, nature, or God Eros romantic love Philia attraction for someone (brotherly love) elegy -(genre of poetry) latifundiae a very extensive parcel of privately owned land. The Greek adjective physikos is represented in various forms in modern English: physics "the study of nature", physique, for "the bodily constitution of a person". Persian Empire Physis term usually translated into English as "nature". the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought Heraclitus -a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC) "Of the Wings of Atalanta" by W.E.B DuBois, "Atalanta & Hippomenes" by Ovid Socrates - (469-399 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy Maciste - Blackface character played by Bartolomeo Pagano, helped to capture the conflict of mulattos and colored people in Italian society Medea (mythic figure, namesake for tragedies by Euripides and Seneca) Atalanta -choose wealth (golden apples) over classical education
mournful woman from Niobe, whose 14 children were slain by Apollo and Artemis because of her bragging the gods pitied her and turned her into a rock that was always wet from weeping. "To Maecenas" poem written by Phillis Wheatley Niobe -character in a tragic myth first Latin prose writer of importance Maecenas -poet wrote "The Enchiridion" Cato the Elder -was a Roman soldier, senator and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization
six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin Epictetus -Greek Stoic philosopher "The Tortoise and the Hare." Terence - (Roman comic poet) the greatest Roman comic dramatist assassinated 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin published Aesop - Ancient Greek writer who wrote fables
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