ROMAN CULTURE IDs I Flashcards
(37 cards)
Temple of Divus Julius
Built by Augustus in 42-29
Deified Caesar
Maius imperium
“Greater empire”
Power to rule Roman Empire
Tribunicia Potestas
Power of emperor to veto
Call senate
Sortes Vergiliana
Divination that predict future
Temple of Palatine Apollo
Augustus built to simulate him with Appolo
Praetorian Guard
Elite personal guard of emperor
Demanatio Memoriae
Erasing one’s record completely
Agrippinaa the Younger
Mother of Nero
Forced suicide by Nero
Pax deorum
“Peace of God”
Religious goal of Rome to have good relationship with gods
Asculapius
Greek god of heeling
Built temple after plague
Based Sibylline Books
Sacerdos
“Priest, cleric”
Pontiff
a member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests
Augur
Priest who interpret will of gods with flying birds
Augury
Practice of seeking divine will by looking birds flying
Hedonism
A type of Epicurean teaching that pleasure is the greatest goods
Argues to limit desire, understand the world
Ataraxia
A type of Epicurean teaching freedom from the disturbs
“Pleasure is absence of pain”
Atomism
Everything is made of atoms, unbreakable particles
Death is not worry worth
Humans should emulate gods
Apathei
“Passion is irrational” in Stoicism
Lucretius
Epicurean poet
Wrote On the Nature thing
Opened Villa of the Papyri
Herculaneum papyri
Piles of papyri that is found after eruprion
Seneca the Younger
Stoic tutor of Nero
Wrote Quimquennium Neronis
Simulated Socrates
Thrasea Paetus
Senator who opposed Nero
Suicided simulating Seneca the Younger
Peculium
Property that slaves are allowed to hold
freedman (libertus/liberta)
Freed slaves with marked caps
Almost citizen, but no vote
