Historical Figures - Rome

Name these Ancient Roman historical figures from their descriptions

Includes Monarchy, Republic, and Empire

Where family names are common, cognomens are needed (ie Scipio is not accepted)

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Description	Era	Figure
Famously won the battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War	Republic	Scipio Africanus
Often overlooked member of the First Triumvirate, died fighting a campaign in Parthia	Republic	Marcus Licinius Crassus
Was responsible for the victory at Actium; the most famous general and childhood friend of Rome's first emperor	Empire	Marcus Agrippa
Brothers whose populist land reforms led them both to gruesome deaths; tribunes of the plebs	Republic	Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
King of Rome whose supposed origins were that of a slave; Sixth King of Rome	Monarchy	Servius Tullius
Author of Metamorphoses, exiled by the Emperor for his hedonistic beliefs	Empire	Ovid
Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned	Empire	Nero
Emperor who preceded the above	Empire	Claudius

Description	Era	Figure
Was emperor when Rome was at its greatest territorial extent	Empire	Trajan
Became dictator after marching on Rome, yet retired the role and restored democracy (debatably)	Republic	Sulla
First King of Rome; considered its founding father	Monarchy	Romulus
Mobster and demagogue responsible for increasing gang violence during Rome's later years; killed by Titus Annius Milo in a street fight	Republic	Clodius Pulcher
Lost the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, forever ending Roman control in Germania	Empire	Publius Quinctilius Varus
Author, orator and politician; unveiled the Catiline Conspiracy to the Senate; famously prosecuted Gaius Verres	Republic	Cicero
Famous stoic politician, who led the Optimates sect against the First Triumvirate; died at Utica by pulling out his intestines to avoid capture	Republic	Cato the Younger

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