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Romans Flashcards

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Circus Maximus

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Stadium for chariot races and mass entertainment

Held up to 150,000

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Pax Romana

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Roman peace

From Augustus Caesar to Marcus Aurelius

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Stoicism

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The idea of being able to control your reactions/emotions in order to achieve universal reason

Zeno of Citium
Appictucus
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius

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Aqueduct

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Method of using a series of lead pipes in order to bring water

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Petronius

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Recorded the common life of Rome during the rule of Nero

Poked fun at Nero

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Trimalchio

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Character in the Satyricon by Petronius

Has become a freedman through hard work and attained power and wealth

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Plutarch

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Recorded the lives - Greeks and their morals

Moral philosopher

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Virgil

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Author of the Aeneid

Messenger of Christianity

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Ovid

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Erotic poet written in order to amuse the people of Rome

Precasting effect on citizens

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Asceticism

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Abstinence from worldly pleasures

Aim of perusing religious/spiritual goals

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The Meditations

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Writings of Marcus Aurelius

Stoic values - avoiding indulgence

Controlled reactions can bring harm to none

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Neoplatonism

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Last great schools of pagan philosophy

3rd century CE / AD

CULT

mysticism will be adopted into Christianity

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The Enneads

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Plotinus- a follower of Neoplatonism
Focuses on the ideas of Plato

“One” is the world of being
Our relation to the “one”

Virtue, beauty, nature, spirituality

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Edict of Milan

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Religious tolerance

Protected Christians

Signed by Constantine-313

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“City of God”

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Written by St. Augustine

Condemns Rome for the their lust of earthly pleasures

Believes “heaven” offers hope/faith

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Praetorium

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Residence for roman governors

Praetorian guards

Pontius Pilate

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Colonus

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Worked on latifundia - farmer

284 - Diocletian enacts a reform that peasant farmers are tenant farmers

Forerunner to feudalism

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Gladiator

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“swordsman”

3rd century BC

champions battle each other, wild animals, criminals

All for entertainment

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Roman roads

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Trade - mobilization of troops

250000 miles of roads
48000 miles were paved

Mila passum - every 1,000 paces

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Collegia

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Organization of businessmen

Organized crime

Predecessors to the mafia

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Ptolemy

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Egyptian with roman citizenship

90-168 AD

geocentric model - earth as the center of the universe

Around until Galileo

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Cicero

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Writer of rhetoric

Romes greatest orator

Natural rights, born with available rights

Humanist

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Tacitus

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Historian

Wrote about Tiberius, Claudius, Nero

annals, histories

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Plotinus

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The ONE, the intellect, soul

Philosopher

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St. Basil

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4th century theologian

Emphasized communal ascetism

East empire

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Martial

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Writer known for Epigrams

Short witty satires

Satired city life, actions of the elite, scandalous behavior

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Flavian Claudius Julianus

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Julian the apostate - renouncing his religious belief

Last of the emperors who tried to stop Christianity

Traditionalist

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St. Benedict

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Monasticism in western church

Patron saint of students and Europe

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Lucretius

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Poet, philosopher, epicurean belief

Enjoying finer things now

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Horace

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Lyricist, poet, created the term ‘Carpe Diem’

Composed odes - enjoying finer things in moderation

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Visigoths

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Branch of the German tribe that conquer Rome

Battle of adrianople

Ultimately defeats Rome which leads to the sack of Rome in 410

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Goths

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Mercenaries - hired to fight for Rome but eventually defeats Rome

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Odoacer

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Flavius Odoacer

First KING of Rome

(476-493)

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