Ancient Rome Lesson 6 Vocabulary

Greek doctor who lived in the Roman Empire in the AD 100s

• Virgil

• Hippocrates
• Ovid

• Galen

a raised channel used to carry water from mountains to cities

• aqueduct
• pipeline
• river
• canal

an author who wrote a great epic about the founding of Rome, the Aeneid

• Homer
• Ovid
• Galen

• Virgil

a poet who wrote about Roman mythology

• Homer
• Ovid
• Virgil
• Sappho

style of writing that pokes fun at people or society

• allegory
• parody
• irony
• satire

the languages that developed from Latin, including Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian

• Celtic languages
• Slavic languages
• Germanic languages
• Romance languages

a legal system based on written code of laws

• Unwritten legal system
• Common law system
• law breakers

• civil law