Early Latin Writers and Carthage (Ennius et Cato)
Ennius was remembered as an early father of Latin literature, while Cato the Elder wrote old Latin prose and pressed for Carthage to be destroyed after Rome's long conflict with that rival city.
Grades 7–8. Places and stories.
How it connects
A classical Christian reading can admire literary memory while judging cruelty and slavery by a higher moral law than Roman glory.
Latin words that go with this card: litterae, bellum, ager, servus.