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1
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Tiro’s shorthand system

A

Notae Tironianae

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2
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Quote at start of part one - “The melencholy of the antique world …”

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Flaubert

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3
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Part One - Exile

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58-47BC

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4
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always …

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a child

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5
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Distance Cicero has to get from Rome

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400 miles

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6
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Shrine to be erected on Cicero’s house

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Liberty

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7
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Quaestor offering sanctuary in Thessalonica

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Gnaeus Plancius

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8
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Highway to Byzantium

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Egnatia

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9
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Island annexed by Clodius

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Cyprus

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10
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Governor of Cyprus

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Cato, assisted by Brutus (nephew)

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11
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Who comes to see Cicero from Rome

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Titus Annius Milo

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12
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Milo’s gladiator

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Birria

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13
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Where does Tiro catch up with Caesar

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Mutina

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14
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Caesar’s staff officer who recognises Tiro

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Publius Crassus (son of Marcus)

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15
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Caesar’s accounts of his campaign

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Commentaries

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16
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Word Caesar writes on Cicero’s letter

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Approved

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17
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Terentia’s steward

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Philotimus

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18
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Cicero family dog - terrier, killed

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Myia

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19
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Right of citizens to demonstrate outside house of people responsible for grievance

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Flagitatio

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20
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“It is human nature that what starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as

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entitlement

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21
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Statue puporting to by Liberty, installed by Clodius

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Statue of courtesan, stolen from Tanagra by Appius, brother of Clodius

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22
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Who has had Terentia whipped

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Clodia

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23
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Where is Quintus appointed grain commissioner by Pompey

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Sardinia

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24
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Murdered philosopher

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Dio of Alexandria

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25
Who is the exiled pharaoh behind the murder of Dio
Ptolemy XII - the Flute Player
26
Dogs beloved of Egyptians
Greyhounds
27
Ptolemy's 11 year old daughter
Cleopatra
28
Present from Ptolemy to Cicero
Jade statue of Hedj-Wer, god of writing - baboon
29
Who provides Asicius with an alibi for the murder of Dio
Rufus
30
Whose house is attacked by the followers of Clodius
Milo
31
Who is Rufus prosecuting for bribery
Bestia
32
Who defends Rufus against the suit brought by Bestia and Clodius
Cicero
33
Atticus's new wife
Pilia
34
The Medea of the Palatine
Clodia (Cicero)
35
New villa left to Cicero in a will
Cumae - Lucrine Lake
36
Sybil ...
Lives in a jar in Cumae
37
What is the message from the triumvirate in Luca to Cicero
Shut up
38
Where do the Triumvirate meet
Luca (Luca accord)
39
Manuscripts in Sulla's library
Aristotle's Politics
40
Cicero's reworking of Aristotle
On the Republic
41
Month renamed July
Quintilus
42
Where is Crassus killed
Carrhae
43
Crassus's legate who sends news of his death
Cassius (Longinus)
44
Play Crassus's head is used as a prop during
The Bacchae
45
Crassus's mouth filled with
molton gold
46
Milo and Clodius fight at
Bovillae, Via Appia
47
Where is Clodius's funeral pyre
Senate chamber
48
Who owns the eating house of the eating house plot
Licinius (near Circus Maximus)
49
Who marries Cornelia, the widow of Publius Crassus
Pompey
50
Province drawn by Cicero
Cilicia (including Cyprus)
51
Final victory of Caesar's in Gaul
Uxellodunum (capture of Vercingetorix)
52
What does Caesar do to two thousand gallic fighters at Uxellodunum
Cuts their hands off
53
Tullia's new (third) husband
Publius Cornelius Dolabella
54
Cicero tells Tiro he'll meet "Where I was first visited by Tiro"
Thessalonica
55
Rhodian quniquereme where oarsman has a dream
Europa
56
Decisive battle of civil war, Pompey's defeat
Pharsalus
57
Where do Senate make for following defeat at Pharsalus
Corcyra (Corfu)
58
Ex-Tribune who puts Cicero under house arrest when he returns to Italy
Vatinius (ugliest man in Rome)
59
Kill stirring up trouble in Campania
Tiro and Rufus
60
Pompey killed in
Egypt - Pelusium
61
Pompey killed by
Achillas - Egyptian general and Lucius Septimus - military tribune
62
Anthony's new wife
Fulvia - widow of Clodius
63
Part Two
Redux - 47BC-43BC
64
Cicero and Terentia divorce at
Tusculum
65
Library at Tusculum
Lyceum (Aristotle)
66
Garden at Tusculum
Academy (Plato)
67
Cicero's favourite statue
Hermathena - gift fromAtticus
68
Book of oratory
Brutus
69
Brutus son of
Servilia - Caesar's old mistress
70
Companion volume to Brutus
Orator
71
Cassius married to ...
Brutus's sister
72
Cato commits suicide after battle of
Thaspus
73
Cato dies at
Utica
74
Gaulish chief strangled after Caesar's triumph
Vercingetorix
75
Senate meeting at
Pompey's theatre, Field of Mars
76
Pompey's sons leading uprising in Spain
Gnaeus and Sextus
77
Cicero's new properties
Astura (island) and Puteoli
78
Tullia dies of
Consumption
79
Cicero's work on grief
Consolation
80
Cicero's work on death
Tusculum Disputations
81
Ceasar circulates a riposte to Cicero's eulogy of
Cato
82
New Master of Horse stationed on Tibur Island on Ides of March
Lepidus
83
Gladiators nearby on the Ides of March provided by
Decimus
84
Caesar first struck by
Tillius Cimber and Publius Casca
85
Who knifes Brutus in the hand
Cassius
86
Caesar's last words
Even you?
87
Brutus cries out
Long Live Cicero
88
Assassins flee to
Capital
89
Appointed Caesar's heir
Octavius - now Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
90
Caesar's eulogy delivered by
Mark Anthony
91
Poet mistakenly killed by mob
Helvius Cinna
92
Who bring Octavian to see Cicero
Balbus
93
New Pontifex Maximum
Lepidus
94
"I have put out my books and now my house has
a soul"
95
Cicero gives Tiro ...
On Friendship
96
Agathe owns the bathhouse in
Baiae
97
Natural phenomenon following the death of Caesar
Comet
98
Cicero's denounciations of Mark Anthony
Philippics (five)
99
Philippics named after
Demonthenes's oratons against Philip II
100
New consuls
Hirtius and Pansa - both die in battle
101
Hirtius suffering from what Hippocrates calls
Carcino
102
Decimus besieged by Mark Anthony at
Mutina (Modena)
103
Cicero says Octavian will be ...
Raised, Praised and Erased
104
Peace delegation sent to Mark Anthony
Piso, Philippus and Servius Sulpicius (who dies)
105
Spartan warriors
"I shall return either with my shield, or on it"
106
Battle at which Hirtius and Pansa both die
Forum Gallorum
107
"Will the Dog Star still rise on the same date?"
"It will do as it is told"
108
Who does Atticus lend money
Fulvia - Anthony's wife
109
Where do Octavian, Anthony and Lepidus meet
Bononia
110
Cicero killed at
Formiae
111
Cicero killed by
Caius Popillius Laenas (parricide defendant)

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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