Humanities Chapter 3 Test: Rome Flashcards
(27 cards)
Rome was built on a hilly site known as the ___________ on the east bank of the ______________.
seven hills, Tiber RIver
The term _______refers to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome .
patricians
The term ________refers to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.
plebians
____________ was among those who stabbed Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate.
Marcus Junius Brutus
________ was the roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people.
Cicero
________ refers to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts.
Imagines
________ refers to the “dutifulness”, a relationship that prescribed that a family and clients equally owned “total obedience” to their parents in ancient Rome.
Pietas
In the sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta, ________ is pictured riding a dolphin.
Cupid
Virgil is author of
Aeneid
Who is the author of Aeneid?
Virgil
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _________.
Georgics
Augustus did not view the writings of ______ favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome.
Ovid
The sand that covered the floor of the Colosseum was know as the ________
arena
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the _________
Tuscan order
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the second floor the ________
Ionic
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the third floor the ___________ (which was favored by the Romans)
Corinthian
The Pantheon contained an _______ a circular opening at the top
oculus
What did Hadrian conceive the oculus as
“Eye of Jupiter”
Who are the five good emperors?
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius
Where was Julius Caesar stabbed?
floor of the senate
What did Augustus do to Ovid?
permanently banish him from Rome
Ovid is the author of
Metamorpheses
What did Nerva do for the good of Rome?
he tried to relieve the poor; he gave them the care and creation which passed on to many generations after his rule
What did Trajan do for the good of Rome?
he was one of the greatest of the roman sovereigns. He continued the practices of Nerva and he was a great military leader. He led many conquests which allowed Rome to reach its highest extent. He believed that architecture and art were a huge part of Rome so he made many advancements and new styles.
