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Cato was born in 95 BC, the son of his homonymous father and Livia. [2] He was descended from Cato the Elder – this Cato's great-grandfather [3] – who was a novus homo ("new man") and the first of the family to be elected to the consulship. [4]
King Henry VIII is the central character of the play Henry VIII, portrayed as a wise and strong ruler. The Earl of Northumberland , Henry Percy , ( hist ) is an important character in Richard II , where he is Bolingbroke's chief ally, and in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 , in which he leads the rebellion against his former ally, who is ...
Comrade and follower of the crusty Cato. Mark Antony: James Purefoy: Marcus Antonius: 1.1–2.10 Brave, dashing, and impulsive, Antony is a cunning and crass Roman general very popular with the Roman public. A loyal ally and close friend of Caesar, Antony becomes consul of Rome after Caesar's death, Atia's lover, and marries Octavia.
The 16th-century French writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne was fascinated by the example of Cato, the incident being mentioned in multiple of his Essais, above all in Du Jeune Caton in Book I. [6] Whether the example of Cato was a potential ethical model or a simply unattainable standard troubled him in particular, Cato proving to be Montaigne's favoured role-model in the earlier ...
Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (better known as Cato the Younger) (95–46 BC), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.
In the February 25, 1733 issue of The New York Weekly Journal [19] is an opinion piece written under the pseudonym "Cato." This was a pen-name used by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon , whose essays were published as Cato's Letters (1723).
Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. Booth, Alan D. 1979. "The Schooling of Slaves in First-Century Rome." Transactions of the American Philological Association 109:11–19. Bowman, Alan K., and Greg Woolf, eds. 1994. Literacy and Power in the Ancient World.
Marcus Porcius Cato (/ ˈ k ɑː t oʊ /, KAH-toe; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Latin: Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. [1] He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work on the ...