TCH HUM SOC LE Leo Z Latin Mottos in Today’s Society Society today is heavily influenced by the ancient Mediterranean world millennia ago, with the Greek and Romans still playing such a major…
ART ECO HUM LE Leo Z The Architect Who Wrote the Rulebook for Buildings: Vitruvius Spotlight Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wasn’t a poet or historian; he was a working architect and engineer, and he wrote the one book that would define…
HUM SPR LE Leo Z The Scholar of the Word: Saint Jerome Spotlight Operating in the late 4th and early 5th centuries AD, Jerome was one of the most brilliant, fiercely articulate, and cantankerous scholars…
LE Leo Z The Master of the Roman Word: Cicero Spotlight If the history of the late Roman Republic had a voice, it belonged to Marcus Tullius Cicero. Operating in the tumultuous 1st century BC…
ART HUM LE Leo Z The Architect of Education: Quintilian Spotlight While Cicero was the master of practicing rhetoric, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also known as Quintilian, was the master of teaching it…
TCH HUM LE Leo Z The Freed Slave Who Turned Fables Into Social Commentary: Phaedrus Spotlight Gaius Julius Phaedrus began life enslaved, likely in Thrace or Macedonia, before being brought to Rome and eventually freed by Augustus…
SPT HUM LE Leo Z The Grammarian Who Rescued Lost Words: Nonius Marcellus Spotlight Nonius Marcellus wasn’t trying to entertain anyone — he was trying to preserve a language he feared was slipping away. Writing sometime in…
MED ECO LE Leo Z The Medical Pioneer of Rome: Aulus Cornelius Celsus Spotlight Operating in the early 1st century AD during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, Celsus was an encyclopedist who penned the definitive…
HUM MDA LE Leo Z The Woman Rome Almost Silenced: Sulpicia Spotlight Sulpicia is one of the only Roman women whose poetry survives in her own words, and that alone makes her remarkable. Writing in the late…