Baker’s Dozen III

Thread Games
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Ancient Greeks

  1. Pythagoras
  2. Homer
  3. Aristophanes
  4. Asclepius
  5. Euclid
  6. Lysander
  7. Solon
  8. Sappho
  9. Aristotle
  10. Leonidas I
  11. Xanthippe
  12. Diogenes
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Ancient Greeks

  1. Pythagoras
  2. Homer
  3. Aristophanes
  4. Asclepius
  5. Euclid
  6. Lysander
  7. Solon
  8. Sappho
  9. Aristotle
  10. Leonidas I
  11. Xanthippe
  12. Diogenes
  13. Themistocles

A remarkable general, admiral and statesman.

Next up:

Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius

Played by Richard Harris in the ahistorical but very entertaining Gladiator.

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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
  8. Aeneas

Founder of Rome

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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
  8. Aeneas
  9. Julius Caesar
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
  8. Aeneas
  9. Julius Caesar
  10. Livia Drusilla
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
  8. Aeneas
  9. Julius Caesar
  10. Livia Drusilla
  11. Porcia Catonis Brutus

Shakespeare spells her name as Portia in Julius Caesar; he and his ancient Roman sources portray her as loyal and brave, a worthy wife to Brutus, “the noblest Roman of them all”.

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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
  8. Aeneas
  9. Julius Caesar
  10. Livia Drusilla
  11. Porcia Catonis Brutus
  12. Marcus Licinius Crassus
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Ancient Romans

  1. Marcus Aurelius
  2. Cicero
  3. Tacitus
  4. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  5. Augustus
  6. Constantine the Great
  7. Seneca
  8. Aeneas
  9. Julius Caesar
  10. Livia Drusilla
  11. Porcia Catonis Brutus
  12. Marcus Licinius Crassus
  13. Marcus Brutus

New category:

Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
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Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
  2. Esther, Jewish maiden who becomes queen of Persia
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Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
  2. Esther, Jewish maiden who becomes queen of Persia
  3. Hannah, mother of Samuel
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Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
  2. Esther, Jewish maiden who becomes queen of Persia
  3. Hannah, mother of Samuel
  4. Cain’s unnamed wife
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Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
  2. Esther, Jewish maiden who becomes queen of Persia
  3. Hannah, mother of Samuel
  4. Cain’s unnamed wife
  5. Rebecca, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
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Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
  2. Esther, Jewish maiden who becomes queen of Persia
  3. Hannah, mother of Samuel
  4. Cain’s unnamed wife
  5. Rebecca, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
  6. Pharaoh’s unnamed daughter, who adopts the infant Moses
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Women of the Bible

  1. Mary, mother of Jesus
  2. Esther, Jewish maiden who becomes queen of Persia
  3. Hannah, mother of Samuel
  4. Cain’s unnamed wife
  5. Rebecca, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau
  6. Pharaoh’s unnamed daughter, who adopts the infant Moses
  7. Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah, sister of Joseph

Heroine of the novel The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, which I recommend.