\paperw7395 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b Mago (d. 203 BC)\par
\b0 The son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Hasdrubal, he fought with Hannibal in Ita
ly in the Second Punic War and then with Hasdrubal in Spain, where he won several victories. Defeated at Ilipa by Scipio the African (206 BC), he retreated to Gades (Cadiz) and then to the Balearic Islands. From there he sailed to Liguria in an attempt t
o raise the peoples of Cisalpine Gaul against Rome. Recalled to Africa, he died during the crossing.\par
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\b Marcus Porcius Cato the Censor (Tusculum 234 BC - Rome 149 BC)\par
\b0 Roman politician, orator, and writer, he came from a plebeian famil
y of farmers. He succeeded in being elected consul in 195 BC and censor in 184 BC. He was a strict exponent of Senatorial conservatism: among the stands that he took, he was famous for his support for the destruction of Carthage and his opposition to the
diffusion of Greek philosophy in Rome. He wrote the first work of history in Latin, the Origines, a history of Rome from Aeneas to 151 BC. As an old man, he dedicated an encyclopedic work to his son, but all that has survived of it is the treatise De ag
ri cultura, of great importance to our knowledge of Roman agriculture.\par
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\b Marcus Terentius Varro (Reate 116 BC - Rome 27 BC)\par
\b0 From a plebeian family, he was linked to Pompey but, after his defeat, established ties with Caesar, who made
him superintendent of the public libraries. He wrote seventy-four works in 620 books, most of them lost, including studies of antiquities, didactic works (such as the three books on agriculture entitled De re rustica), histories of literature and lingui
stics, and literary works on philosophical, moral, and political subjects. Taken as a whole, Varro's work represents one of the most remarkable attempts at systematization ever attempted in Latin culture and was a source of inspiration for poets and men-
of-letters for a long time afterward.\par
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\b Mutius Scevola\par
\b0 A Roman hero who, according to tradition, entered the Etruscan camp with the intention of killing Porsenna, but struck the king's scribe by mistake. Captured and brought before P
orsenna, he placed the hand with which he had made the error on a burning brazier without uttering a sound. Impressed, Porsenna freed him and offered to make peace with the Romans.\par
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\b Myron (Eleutheris 5th cent. BC)\par
\b0 A Greek sculptor,
he was one of the first to go beyond the static representation of the severe period and to capture movement and articulation in space. Author of the celebrated Discobolus of which numerous replicas exist, he showed great skill in portraying the movement
of the athlete at the moment just prior to the throwing of the disc.\par
