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    Roman’s had an idealised view of what their politicians should be. From their ancestry to their attributes. In this essay I shall be looking at Gaius Marius. How did he live up to the Roman ideals? What are those ideals? I shall a number of these ideals one by one. But first I shall discuss what ideals the Romans have and why. The easiest way to find out the ideals Romans had. Was to look some tomb inscriptions. These are useful since the Romans would list the most important things about this person

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    well as Gaius Marius demeanor towards his triumph at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae (102 B.C). Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States, will later embody the spirit of Julius Caesar and Gaius Marius throughout his military campaign in the War of 1812 as well as his presidency (1829 -1837). President Jackson’s unprecedented imprint upon American politics and the presidency has exposed viewers to analyze few similarities portrayed from both Julius Caesar and Gaius Marius. Although the

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    Charles Marius Barbeau’s Ethnography and the Canadian Folklore Born on 5 March 1883, in Sainte-Marie-de-Bauce, Charles Marius Barbeau is widely seen as the first Canadian educated anthropologist. He graduated from Université Laval in Québec, from his studies of law, in 1907; he never practised law. Upon graduating, Marius was awarded – as the first French-Canadian recipient – the Cecil Rhodes scholarship which allowed him to study at Oxford University where he was introduced to the emerging

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    important because it brought Rome into contact with the powerful Parthia Empire. He was able to arrange a treaty with Parthia, which was a milestone for Sulla. This would not be the last time he would meet Mithridates in battle. Soon Sulla and Marius again had to forget there many differences to defend Rome against Allied Italian forces who had declared war on Rome. They had set up their own government and were preparing to become an independent nation. This war was known as the Social War

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    1)  The main conflict in The Son of Neptune is that Camp Jupiter, The Roman Demigod Training Camp, will be attacked on the day of the Feast of Fortuna, which happens to be in less than five days, and three demigods must travel north to Alaska, the land beyond the gods, to recover the legion's eagle and to free Thantos so that Camp Jupiter can have a fighting chance in the upcoming battle.   There are many conflicts in this story. Another conflict is that Percy has a dilemma because his memories were

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    The Roman way of life has been known to us as one for domination and expansion, at home and abroad. Throughout the duration of the second century Romans have been known for their brut forms of expansions through extraordinary military campaigns however, accompanied by on home soil with political sparked violence and triggered civil unrest due to reformations and thirst for power. Through direct analyzation of ancient sources written by Plutarch on the lives of the Gracchus brothers Tiberius

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    kind-hearted compassionate man, but his honest characteristics began to chip after each time he was given power. At this point Sulla had never experienced a government position, until he was appointed quaestor in Marius’ first consulship to make war in Africa

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    dancers began to fund and help popularize ballet. Their names were Catherine de Medici and King Louis XIV. Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa was also a very well known French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. He is considered to be the most influential ballet master in ballet history becuase he internationally popularized dance and his works made a long lasting impression. Petipa choreographed many famous ballets, and among them, one of the most famous classical ballet in existence that he choreographed

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    choreographers such as Marie Taglioni. This school was controlled by an aristocrat named Czar. The most well known 19th century choreographer, Marius Petipa, became the ballet master of the entire school, shaping imperial and classical ballet. Ideas such as increased focus on technique, formulaic choreography, mime and gesture, and lengthy ballets can be seen in Petipa 's most famous ballets. These famous ballets include The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake. In the 20th century, Sergei Diaghilev

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    Marius Petipa, (born March 11, 1818, Marseille, France—died July 14 [July 1, Old Style], 1910, Gurzuf, Ukraine, Russian Empire) dancer and choreographer who worked for nearly 60 years at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and had a profound influence on modern classical Russian ballet. He directed many of the greatest artists in Russian ballet and developed ballets that retain an important position in Russian dance repertoire. Petipa and his brother Lucien (later principal dancer at the Paris

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