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  2. Sulla - Wikipedia

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    Lucius Cornelius Sulla is also a character in the first book of the Emperor novels by Conn Iggulden, which are centred around the lives of Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Junius Brutus. Sulla is a major character in Roman Blood, the first of the Roma Sub Rosa mystery novels by Steven Saylor.

  3. Writings of Cicero - Wikipedia

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    The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most renowned collections of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity. Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist who lived during the years of 106–43 BC. He held the positions of Roman senator and ...

  4. Sula (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Sula Peace: the childhood best friend of Nel, whose return to the Bottom disrupts the whole community.The main reason for Sula's strangeness is her defiance of gender norms and traditional morality, symbolized by the birthmark "that spread from the middle of the lid toward the eyebrow, shaped something like a stemmed rose," [2] which, according to some psychoanalytic readings, is a dual symbol ...

  5. Sulla's proscription - Wikipedia

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    Sulla's proscription. The proscription of Sulla was a reprisal campaign by the Roman proconsul and later dictator, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, to eliminate his enemies in the aftermath of his victory in the civil war of 83–82 BC. Following his victory at the battle of the Colline Gate, Sulla wanted to take his revenge against the former ...

  6. Gracchi brothers - Wikipedia

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    The brothers lay their hands on a document titled "property", consistent with then-current interpretations of their lives. [1][2] The Gracchi brothers were two brothers who lived during the beginning of the late Roman Republic: Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus. They served in the plebeian tribunates of 133 BC and 122–121 BC, respectively.

  7. English literature - Wikipedia

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    e. English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [ 1 ] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.

  8. Italo Calvino - Wikipedia

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    Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. [6] Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of ...

  9. The Spectator (1711) - Wikipedia

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    The Spectator (1711) The Spectator. (1711) The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. Each "paper", or "number", was approximately 2,500 words long, and the original run consisted of 555 numbers, beginning on 1 March 1711. [1] These were collected into seven volumes.