Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

BELLOTTO, Bernardo. Capriccio with the Colosseum.
1743-44. Oil on canvas. Galleria Nazionale, Parma.

Cicero here, telling us, "The beginnings of all things are small." This is true, of course, of Rome, who was not built in a day. This aphorism expresses perhaps that most Roman of virtues, the idea beauty takes time. In other words, the people of Rome understood the patience and perseverance involved in building great things, things that last for more than the generation that has created it. Today we shall hear of the lives of those men who helped make Rome great.

Agenda:

1. Pater noster
2. Finish Famous Roman Research Projects:
1. Presentations
3. Review HW:
1. Study notes on Ancient Rome: Expansion and Conquest. (Quiz in 4th quarter.)
2. Be perfect.