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The later Empire
Aetius
He was a western general who fought Attila in Gaul.
The Empire
Agrippa
He won battles for Augustus and built works for Rome.
The Empire
Agrippina the Younger
She was Nero’s mother and a powerful empress.
The Empire
Antoninus Pius
He gave Rome a long, mostly peaceful reign.
The Empire
Apollodorus of Damascus
He designed great buildings and a famous bridge for Trajan.
The Empire
Arminius
He led tribes who destroyed three Roman legions in a forest.
The Empire
Augustus
He became the first Roman emperor.
The Empire
Boudica
She was a queen in Britain who fought the Romans.
The Empire
Caligula
He was an emperor remembered for cruel and wild stories.
The Empire
Caracalla
He made many free people across the empire into citizens.
The Republic
Cicero
He was Rome’s most famous speaker and letter writer.
The Republic
Cincinnatus
He led Rome in a crisis, then went back to his farm.
The Empire
Claudia Severa
She wrote a birthday invitation that we can still read.
The Empire
Claudius
He was the emperor who made Britain a Roman province.
The Republic
Cleopatra
She was the last great queen of Egypt.
The Empire
Commodus
He was an emperor who loved performing in the arena.
The later Empire
Constantine
He favored the Christian church and built Constantinople.
The Republic
Cornelia
She was a noble mother famous for her sons, the Gracchi.
The Republic
Crassus
He was Rome’s richest man and helped defeat Spartacus.
The later Empire
Diocletian
He split the hard job of ruling a huge empire.
The Empire
Domitian
He was a stern emperor who built a great deal and was feared.
The Empire
Faustina the Younger
She was empress and traveled with the army.
The Empire
Frontinus
He ran Rome’s water system and wrote a book about it.
The Empire
Galen
He was a famous doctor whose books taught Europe for ages.
The later Empire
Galla Placidia
She helped rule the west while her son was young.
The Empire
Germanicus
He was a popular general in the imperial family.
The Empire
Hadrian
He built a famous wall across northern Britain.
The Republic
Hannibal
He led Carthage and crossed mountains with elephants.
The later Empire
Helena
She was Constantine’s mother and a famous traveler.
The Empire
Horace
He wrote poems about friendship, war, and simple joys.
The Republic
Hortensia
She gave a public speech against a tax on wealthy women.
The later Empire
Hypatia
She taught math and philosophy in Alexandria.
The Empire
Julia Domna
She was an empress who loved learning and held the court together.
The later Empire
Julian
He was an emperor who tried to restore the old gods.
The Republic
Julius Caesar
He was a general, a writer, and Rome’s dictator.
The Empire
Livia
She was Augustus’s wife and a power at court.
The Empire
Livy
He wrote a giant history of Rome from its stories to his own time.
The Empire
Marcus Aurelius
He was an emperor who wrote a calm book of thoughts.
The Republic
Marius
He opened the army to poorer citizens.
The Republic
Mark Antony
He fought for Caesar’s memory, then lost to Octavian.
The Empire
Nero
He was an emperor who loved shows and became hated.
The Republic
Octavia
She was Augustus’s sister and tried to keep the peace.
The Empire
Ovid
He wrote playful poems and a book of myth stories.
The Empire
Pliny the Elder
He wrote a huge book about nature and died at Vesuvius.
The Empire
Pliny the Younger
His letters describe the Vesuvius eruption and Roman life.
The Republic
Pompey
He was a great general who later lost to Caesar.
Kingdom stories
Romulus
Stories say he founded the city of Rome.
The later Empire
Romulus Augustulus
He was a boy often called the last western emperor.
The Republic
Scipio Africanus
He beat Hannibal and saved Rome’s war with Carthage.
The Empire
Seneca
He was a writer and a teacher of Nero.
The Empire
Septimius Severus
He was an emperor from a grand city in North Africa.
The Republic
Spartacus
He led enslaved fighters in a huge revolt.
The Empire
Suetonius
He wrote gossipy lives of the first emperors.
The Republic
Sulla
He marched an army into Rome and ruled by force.
The Empire
Tacitus
He wrote sharp, serious histories of the early empire.
The later Empire
Theodosius I
He was the last emperor to rule east and west together.
The Empire
Tiberius
He was the second emperor, a serious soldier.
The Empire
Titus
He finished the Colosseum and ruled during the Vesuvius disaster.
The Empire
Trajan
He expanded the empire to its biggest size.
The Republic
Vercingetorix
He led Gaul’s last big fight against Caesar.
The Empire
Vespasian
He became emperor after civil war and started the Colosseum.
The Republic
Virgil
He wrote the Aeneid, Rome’s great epic poem.
The Empire
Vitruvius
He wrote a famous book on how to build.
The Empire
Zenobia
She was queen of Palmyra and challenged Rome.