grandson of Vulcan‚ came to the throne the monarchy was coming to an end. Servius worshipped of Diana and introduced many reforms until the plot of his daughter and husband‚ Tarquinius Superbus who was the last king of Rome‚ murdered him. His son‚ SEXTUS raped LUCRETIA‚ the wife of Tarquinius COLLATINUS who told her husband and father‚ later killing herself. Tarquinius Superbus and his sons were forced into exile‚ and the Roman monarchy
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ALPER TUNGA YURDAKUL 20901344 MARCUS AURELİUS Aurelius is one of the most remembered of the Roman emperors because of his Meditations (c. 169–c. 180)‚ a classic work of Stoic philosophy consisting of a collection of his private notes gathered posthumously under one title. As the last of the five “good emperors‚” as head of the Roman Empire from 161 to 180‚ and because he was revered for centuries after as the perfect emperor‚ Aurelius continues to be of great interest
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was spread all throughout the Roman state as people impatiently waited and searched for some sort of political power to come back and help reorder the state. A few political players came into play in the search for power: M. Antonius‚ C. Octavius‚ Sextus Pompeius‚ Pompey; and M. Aemilius Lepidus. These four of these political figures had different ideas as to what they wanted to become of Rome. Rome soared into a cycle of Civil wars‚ which played the deciding factor of one of the most significant
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Canto I -The Dark Wood-Dantes meets the Lion‚ Wolf‚ and leopard that blocks his path to leave. Meets Virgil Canto II -Ante-Inferno-those who live without disgrace or praise (stuck constantly chasing after a banner (goal) for they never had a goal when they were alive. Passes Acheron‚ guarded by Limbo to enter Limbo. Ghosts do not feel compassion for those in other levels of hell except for their own. Canto III and IV -First circle of hell-limbo-virtuous but un baptized -punishment=no hope
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The Ancient Greek philosophers have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. This article surveys the seminal works and ideas of key figures in the Ancient Greek philosophical tradition from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. It highlights their main philosophical concerns and the evolution in their thought from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE. The Ancient Greek philosophical tradition broke away from a mythological approach to explaining the
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Pre-Socratic Philosophers Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1. Who Were the Presocratic Philosophers? Our understanding of the Presocratics is complicated by the incomplete nature of our evidence. Most of them wrote at least one “book” (short pieces of prose writing‚ it seems‚ or‚ in some cases‚ poems of not great length)‚ but no complete work survives. Instead‚ we are dependent on later philosophers‚ historians‚ and compilers of collections of ancient wisdom for disconnected quotations (fragments)
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The Civil War of Rome The Civil War in the eyes of most people is not glorious‚ but rather one of the worst crimes you could possibly commit when the state is all-important. Only under the most extreme circumstances should one be allowed to (in the eyes of the people that is) begin a Civil War with just cause. Caesar took this into consideration‚ but too many things were going wrong in Rome for him not to begin the war. The first of many problems was the collapse of the Triumvirate. The Triumvirate
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Who was Cleopatra? Cleopatra VII was born in 69 B.C‚ daughter of Ptolemy XII‚ the Egyptian throne given to her at 18 years and her younger brother at 10 years. She ruled ancient Egypt as co regent‚ firstly with her brother and then with her son for almost three decades. Cleopatra was the last of the Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy. She was well educated and clever; Cleopatra could speak various languages and served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies. Her romantic relationships
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Branches of philosophy The following branches are the main areas of study: • Metaphysics investigates the nature of being and the world. Traditional branches are cosmology and ontology. • Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge‚ and whether knowledge is possible. Among its central concerns has been the challenge posed by skepticism and the relationships between truth‚ belief‚ and justification. • Ethics‚ or ’moral philosophy’‚ is concerned with questions of how
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