The Legacy of Rome

1. A poet whose metamorphoses transmitted classical Greco-Roman mythology to the modern world
4. the city God used to prepare the word for His plan of salvation through His son, Jesus Christ
6. the belief that all men share a common human nature
8. the language spoken and understood by churchmen and scholars
10. A historian who portrayed the lives of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian
11. an epic poem from Virgil and one of the greatest masterpieces of Latin literature

2. The common and everyday speech of Latin that most of the Romans spoke
3. it forms the basis for the civil law of many western European and Latin American nations
5. He was a master of Latin prose and wrote numerous letters
7. The greatest poet of the Golden Age
9. the third characteristic of Roman law