1.5 Latin and Literature

The language spoken in Rome was...

• Greek

• Roman

• Latin

• Pig Latin

The Romans brought writing to....

• California

• Egypt

• Language Arts classes

• Northern Europe

over time, new languages called ___________________, developed from Latin.

• Mediterranean Languages

• Romance Languages

• talking

• Linguistics

Romance Languages include....

• Chinese, German and Slavic.

• English, Russian, Tagalog, and Hindi

• French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese

• poems, sonnets, love letters, and valentines

Roman writers and thinkers used the Latin language to create...

• nursery rhymes.

• Trojan horses.

• epic mathematical equations.

• great works of literature.

Oratory, or _________________, was especially prized by Romans.

• public speaking

• orange tree growing

• digging for gold ore

• orangutan monkey chatter

The most celebrated Roman epic poem was......

• Hickory Dickory Dock.

• Homer's Illiad.

• Jabberwocky

• Virgil's Aeneid.

Philosophy is the study of....

• reality

• knowledge

• beliefs

• all of the above

The Greek Stoic philosophy stressed a practical approach....

• babies were delivered by storks.

• people performed their civic duty and accepted their circumstances-good or bad.

• all citizens copied Caesar's lifestyle and speech patterns.

• you eat your beans with every meal.

_________________________ became the keeper of Roman literature.

• Augustus Caesar

• Julius Caesar

• The Roman Catholic Church

• The secret catacombs