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Cicero |
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Roman orator |
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In 53 or 52 BC the orator Cicero had visited Patras and he had sent a lot of letters to his friend Marcus Curius, a merchant, who had settled in Patras. |
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Antonius and Cleopatra |
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Roman emperor and his ally |
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In 32 BC Antonius sailed from Corfu and arrived in Patras, where he spent his winter |
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Caesar Octavian Augustus |
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Roman emperor |
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In 14 B.C. he founded a roman military colony in Patras |
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Nero (54-68A.D.) |
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Activity |
Roman emperor |
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He was bewitched by the honours that Greeks showered on him at the end of 66 A.D. and during the Isthmia festivities he proclaimed the freedom of Greece and its tax exemption. |
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Apostle Andrew |
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He taught Christianism |
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In the years of Nero, Apostle Andrew died a martyr in Patras |
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Hadrian (117-138 A.D.). |
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Roman Emperor |
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He lived in Athens from 122 to 125, he visited Patras and Corinth and he embellished the towns of the Achaean Congress and Athens. |
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Plutarch |
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historian |
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The erudite historian from Chaironeia and Hadrian’s teacher had visited Patras |
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