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Metamorphoses, Art of Love ● Plautus(普魯塔斯) (254184 BC) Favourite Roman ic writer a decline in edy Shakespeare。 Moliere Ⅳ . Philosophy ● Stoicism ● Epicureanism Ⅵ . Historical writing ● Julius Caesar (10245 BC), Civil Wars , War in Gaul ● Cicero (10243 BC) On Old Age, On Friendship, On Duties Voltaire, “Cicero taught us to think”. Ⅴ .Scientific, factual writing ● Lucretius ( BC), The Nature of Universe: free people from the superstition of religion. ● Pliny the Elder (2379 AD), Natural History, factual detail ● Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40—90 AD). De Matereia Medica, plant identification. ? ● Claudius Galen ( AD), four bodily humours and temperaments. Discussion Why do you think the Romans paid little attention to philosophy and the arts? Do you think it matters if a society does not pay much attention to these things? What is the effect if it does or does not? Task Make a presentation for Christianity(5— 10minutes)