Untitled spreadsheet - Sheet1 (1) Flashcards

Question

How many people can be held in the circus maximus?

Answer 1

250,000 people could be held in the circus maximus

Answer 2

Chariot race

Answer 3

Racing companies

Answer 4

Red (russata), white (albata), blue (veneta), and green (prasina)

Answer 5

Red and white

Answer 6

Blue and green

Answer 7

Located between the Palatine and Aventine hills

Answer 8

The white cloth dropped to start a race

Answer 9

2 horse chariot

Answer 10

4 horse chariot

Answer 11

Charioteer

Answer 12

Successfully completed lap

Answer 13

Starting gates

Answer 14

Fought with helmet, oblong shield, fish crest on helmet. Usually fought the retiarius or Thracians.

Answer 15

Lightly clad, armed with a net and trident. Usually fought Myrmillones or Secutores.

Answer 16

Oblong shield, visored helmet, sword

Answer 17

Small round shield, curved scimitar

Answer 18

Hunters- fought wild beasts

Answer 19

Rode chariots with 2 horses

Answer 20

Heavily armed, but can not see out of visored helmet

Answer 21

Armed with lasso and a curved piece of wood

Answer 22

Pursuers- like Samnite but without the neck protector

Answer 23

Full-armed with a breast-plate and visored helmet

Answer 24

Wooden sword given to gladiators on their retirement

Answer 25

Gladiator trainer

Answer 26

Giver of games

Answer 27

Sand put down to absorb the blood from a gladiator match

Answer 28

Hunts where Bestiarii fought wild beasts

Answer 29

To press the thumb against the forefinger- crowd wants to spare the gladiators life

Answer 30

Turning the thumb upwards or towards the chest- to signify the death stroke

Answer 31

At funerals

Answer 32

Mock naval battles- they flooded the arena

Answer 33

Dressing room

Answer 34

Scraping room/ massage

Answer 35

Exercise area

Answer 36

Elementary school

Answer 37

Elementary school teacher

Answer 38

Slave who carries books to school

Answer 39

Upper school teacher

Answer 40

Teacher of public speaking

Answer 41

Pen and notebook

Answer 42

Smallest unit of a legion

Answer 43

Double a century (later dropped in favor of a cohort)

Answer 44

6 times a century

Answer 45

Basic fighting unit of the Roman army

Answer 46

6-8 men who share a tent (part of a century)

Answer 47

Victorious general

Answer 48

Legionary commander

Answer 49

Leader of a century

Answer 50

2nd in command to a centurio

Answer 51

Worn by victorious generals

Answer 52

Holder of standard (of a century or cohort)

Answer 53

Silver or bronze eagle-standard (of a legion)

Answer 54

Holder of the eagle

Answer 55

Horn blower

Answer 56

Dart thrower (standing crossbow used by one men)

Answer 57

Dart or stone throwing siege energy, larger than a scorpio

Answer 58

Siege engine (like a catapult), threw boulders; means "wild ass" for its kick

Answer 59

Siege engine which hurled javelins

Answer 60

Helmet (originally only made of leather)

Answer 61

Helmet (originally only made of metal)

Answer 62

Spear (used by triarii and hastati)

Answer 63

Leather breastplate

Answer 64

Military belt

Answer 65

Soldier's cloak/ blanket

Answer 66

White wedding dress

Answer 67

Saffron colored veil

Answer 68

Engagement

Answer 69

What bride says at ceremony- "where you are, my husband, I am"

Answer 70

Their bulla

Answer 71

Matron of honor

Answer 72

The kalends, nones, ides (and the day after each) of any month; all of May and half of June were all unlucky day; also unlucky, the days the lower world was supposed to open- August 24, October 5, November 8.

Answer 73

Common law marriage

Answer 74

Fictitious sale of the bride

Answer 75

Upper class marriage ceremony

Answer 76

Procession of wedding party to forum

Answer 77

Chief priest, elected for life

Answer 78

Start at age 6- (30 years) learn job for 10 years, work as Vestal for 10 years, teach for 10 years- keep flame of Vesta burning, keep documents, etc. safe; only man allowed in temple (which is round) is Pontifex Maximus

Answer 79

Priest who checks sky for omens (birds/ lightning)

Answer 80

Same as auspex

Answer 81

Checks guts of animals for omens (2 hearts are bad...)

Answer 82

Priests of Mars

Answer 83

Household gods

Answer 84

Shrine for Lares

Answer 85

First name

Answer 86

Family name

Answer 87

Name for branch of family

Answer 88

Earned name

Answer 89

Worn by all (like long t-shirt)

Answer 90

Worn by boys under 16 and magistrates (with purple stripes)

Answer 91

All white- worn by men over 16

Answer 92

Same as toga virilis

Answer 93

Same as toga virilis (boys gave up their toga praetexta on the Liberalia)

Answer 94

Worn by men running for office; bright white (chalk)

Answer 95

Worn by men in mourning (called sordidati)

Answer 96

Women's dress

Answer 97

Women's shawl

Answer 98

Broach, pin

Answer 99

Child's good luck charm

Answer 100

Shoe (for outdoors)

Answer 101

Sandal for indoors

Answer 102

Broad- brimmed hat

Answer 103

Cap of freedom

Answer 104

Entry hallway/ large meeting room

Answer 105

Hole in roof of atrium- allows water in

Answer 106

Basin that catches water

Answer 107

Wings off atrium

Answer 108

Bust of ancestors, housed in alae

Answer 109

Master's office

Answer 110

Dining room

Answer 111

Outdoor garden with columns

Answer 112

Regular garden

Answer 113

Fish sauce

Answer 114

Wine mixed with honey

Answer 115

Fermented honey and water

Answer 116

Grape juice

Answer 117

Drinking party

Answer 118

Master of the drinking party (he decides the games, etc.)

Answer 119

Romans reclined on their left side; there were 3 couches, each seating 3 people

Answer 120

Appian Way- from Rome to Capua early on, then extended to Brundisium; known as the queen of the roads- "regina viarum"- built by Appius Claudius Caecus in 312 BC

Answer 121

Road which ran through the forum

Answer 122

Our sea- Mediterranean

Answer 123

Power of father over familia

Answer 124

Head of family

Answer 125

Senate house

Answer 126

Great sewer

Answer 127

Apartment buildings

Answer 128

Firemen/ police

Answer 129

Lightweight, 2 wheeled vehicle

Answer 130

4 wheeled carriage, comfortable and large

Answer 131

Litter (carried by 4 slaves)

Answer 132

Professional mourners

Answer 133

Oldest son shakes father 3 times and calls his name

Answer 134

Stone coffin

Answer 135

Underground chamber for urns holding the ashes of a cremated person

Answer 136

Guardian of underage son and unmarried daughter if pater familias

Answer 137

Group of people with the same nomen- common ancestor through males

Answer 138

Members of a gens- gens distributed property of a member who died sine prole among he gentiles

Answer 139

Group of people with same cognomen

Answer 140

Blood relation- no legal rights

Answer 141

Religious services of the gens

Answer 142

Relation through males-

Answer 143

M. brother

Answer 144

M. grandfather

Answer 145

F. grandmother

Answer 146

M. uncle on father's side

Answer 147

F. aunt on father's side

Answer 148

M. uncle on mother's side

Answer 149

F. aunt on mother's side

Answer 150

M./f. grandson/granddaughter, nephew/niece

Answer 151

M. first cousin on father's side

Answer 152

First cousin on mother's side

Answer 153

A parent's cousin (second cousin)

Answer 154

Son or daughter of a parent's cousin (third cousin)

Answer 155

Relatives through marriage only

Answer 156

Relation through marriage

Answer 157

M. son-in-law

Answer 158

F. daughter-in-law

Answer 159

M. father-in-law

Answer 160

F. mother-in-law

Answer 161

M. stepson

Answer 162

F. stepdaughter

Answer 163

M. stepfather

Answer 164

F. stepmother

Answer 165

Women who married brothers (singular- ianitrix)

Answer 166

Power of a man over his wife

Answer 167

Vibius or Vopiscus

Answer 168

Nomen gentile or nomen gentilicium

Answer 169

Betrothal- maiden was promised to a man by pater familias or tutor

Answer 170

Fiancé, betrothed man- "he having been promised"

Answer 171

Fiancé, betrothed woman- "she having been promised"

Answer 172

Wedding ring- worn on the ring finger of the left hand because it was believed that vein went from the finger straight to the heart

Answer 173

Breaking of betrothal done through nuntius

Answer 174

Man could not recover his betrothal presents if he broke the betrothal (i.e. the iron ring, anulus pronubis, or some money, arra)

Answer 175

Term for women used to mean "to marry"- literally "to veil oneself"

Answer 176

Term used for men to mean "to marry"- literally "to lead into matrimony"

Answer 177

Marriage hymn

Answer 178

Matron's dress- worn outside the house

Answer 179

1st of March- Mother's Day (and "Wive's Day too)

Answer 180

The power of a husband over his wife

Answer 181

None existed for the first five centuries in Rome but many occurred by the time of Augustus

Answer 182

Plebeian form of marriage

Answer 183

Mock sale marriage- around since the time of Servius

Answer 184

Patricians and plebeians were allowed to intermarry

Answer 185

Woven on upright loom- bridal tunic

Answer 186

Saffron veil worn by bride

Answer 187

Their mother

Answer 188

Knot on bride's dress only to be untied by husband

Answer 189

A toga and a wreath of flowers on his head

Answer 190

The Kalends of every month and the day after

Answer 191

Lifting- act of acknowledging a child

Answer 192

First eight days of pupus' life

Answer 193

Naming ceremony 9 days after a son's birth, 8 days after a daughter's

Answer 194

A litter for carrying a baby by 2 men

Answer 195

Two concave pieces of gold containing an amulet worn around the neck to protect a child from the fascinatio (evil eye)

Answer 196

A rattle- a toy that was composed of several toys tied together by string that rattled when shaken- monumenta of Terrence- identification to children

Answer 197

Spinning tops

Answer 198

Knucklebones for playing jacks

Answer 199

Taught by a litterator

Answer 200

Taught by a grammaticus

Answer 201

Taught by a rhetor

Answer 202

Shedlike attachment to public building where class was usually held

Answer 203

Market days- no school

Answer 204

Accompanied children to school and tutored them

Answer 205

Carried a child's books (satchel and tablets)

Answer 206

Apprenticeship "rookie-ship" (from tiro, rookie)

Answer 207

Voluntary apprenticeship to study law

Answer 208

Apprenticeship to study administration and war

Answer 209

A group of 10 house slaves

Answer 210

Says that an individual could have up to 10 and 20 thousand slaves

Answer 211

Spear- symbol of a sale under a public official

Answer 212

To be sold into slavery

Answer 213

Wholesale dealers- sellers of slaves

Answer 214

Slave marriage

Answer 215

Slaves born in the house

Answer 216

Scroll around the slaves neck that identified the slave showing his character- it served as a warrant for the buyer

Answer 217

Pimp- sold slaves fo immoral purposes

Answer 218

Took care of public buildings and acted as servants of servants of magistrates and priests

Answer 219

Slave in charge of latifundia

Answer 220

Slave in charge of slave women who make wool clothes and such

Answer 221

Purchased goods and kept records of the purchases

Answer 222

Door keeper (usually chained to the door post)

Answer 223

Hair dresser

Answer 224

Slave who cared for feet or made shoes

Answer 225

Hair dresser for the mistress

Answer 226

Slave who cleared the way for the master

Answer 227

Reminded master of names of people

Answer 228

Accompanied master back from parties

Answer 229

Slave trained to keep the toga folded when not in use

Answer 230

Power of master over slaves

Answer 231

Property of a slave if so granted by master

Answer 232

The slave of a slave

Answer 233

A slave who took care of yoke of bullocks

Answer 234

Accompanied children to school and tutored them

Answer 235

Carried a child's books (satchel and tablets)

Answer 236

Lash or rawhide made of cords/ thongs of leather

Answer 237

Whip and bits of bone or metal buttons

Answer 238

Culprit who carried on his shoulders a log of wood shaped live a V (furca- fork) with his arms stretched out and his hands tied to the ends of the fork

Answer 239

Prison for slaves to work unchained

Answer 240

Basket given to the client by the patron

Answer 241

Open courtyard between the street and the door to the house

Answer 242

Fugitive- branded with an F on the forehead- sometime had a metal collar around his neck

Answer 243

Slave quarters

Answer 244

Door or door way- doors had one Hager's cylindrical hinge

Answer 245

Slave to punish a slave

Answer 246

Liberty cap

Answer 247

A client's greeting to his patron in the atrium of the patron's house

Answer 248

Passage or entrance to the atrium

Answer 249

Tokens of hospitality exchanged

Answer 250

Main room or center of the house

Answer 251

Large basin for collecting rain water that fell from the compluvium, a hole in the roof that allowed light to pass through

Answer 252

Master's study- separated from atrium by curtains (vela/ aulaea) and the peristylum by folding doors (valvae)

Answer 253

Large open courtyard surrounded by columns

Answer 254

Bedroom for midday siesta

Answer 255

Small bedroom or sleeping quarter

Answer 256

Passage between the atrium and the peristylum- avoids the tablinum in order to give the master privacy

Answer 257

Wing (had no door between it and the atrium) on either side of the atrium that might contain the imagines, or wax busts of the family's ancestors

Answer 258

Shop where the household sold goods

Answer 259

Dining room with three couches- customary to have several for the change of seasons

Answer 260

Extra rooms used as halls, saloons, parlors, drawing rooms, banquet halls, or reception rooms

Answer 261

Room for sun bathing

Answer 262

Bathroom- always next to culina

Answer 263

Kitchen- place for slaves to cook- always on wing of peristylum on the side of the andron

Answer 264

Room or private chapel with shrine to the gods for worship

Answer 265

Large room on the side of the peristylum opposite the atrium that contained permanent seats for lectures

Answer 266

Outdoor rooms for relaxation

Answer 267

Formal elaborate garden

Answer 268

Slave quarters (usually on the wings of the peristylum)

Answer 269

Extension of story over another- balcony

Answer 270

Stepping stones from the street to the house

Answer 271

Roof formed by two pairs of beams crossing each other at right angles to form a square hole (compluvium) no columns

Answer 272

Beams of the roof were supported by four pillars or columns at each angle

Answer 273

Roof with no impluvium or compluvium- probably used windows in the alae

Answer 274

Front door

Answer 275

Beams of the rood were supported by more that four columns

Answer 276

Roof sloped outward to gutters for catching rain water but still had a compluvium

Answer 277

Doorkeeper

Answer 278

Double doors

Answer 279

Back or side door

Answer 280

F.- torch of inflammable wood and oil kept near the door

Answer 281

Couch or bed

Answer 282

Bed post- detachable head or elbow rest

Answer 283

Marriage couch in atrium opposite the ostium

Answer 284

Bars for fastening doors

Answer 285

Pillow or cushion

Answer 286

Foot stool used to reach the bed

Answer 287

Seat with four legs and no back

Answer 288

Curule seat with curved legs of ivory that could be folded up

Answer 289

Up-right, high-backed chair with solid arms

Answer 290

Chair with a curved back and no arms

Answer 291

Stool for one person

Answer 292

Sella for more than one person (bench)

Answer 293

Chair with no arms and a back that was slanted at a comfortable angle

Answer 294

Small table with one leg

Answer 295

Table with three legs

Answer 296

Roman lamp that used oil (lampas- Greek lamp)

Answer 297

Used to hold several lucernae (originally meant for candelae or candles)

Answer 298

Rectangular table with a raised rim for holding plates and dishes

Answer 299

Torch or lamp that usually hung from the ceiling

Answer 300

Semicircular dining couch

Answer 301

Cabinet or cupboard (used as a closet)

Answer 302

Strongbox or chest kept in the tablinum

Answer 303

Large metal stove that held coal and had large handles for carrying from room to room for warmth

Answer 304

Staff on the sundial

Answer 305

Water clock (allowed water to pass through at a certain rate filling it up at marks to tell time)

Answer 306

Unburned bricks- old blocks for walls

Answer 307

Sundial brought from Greece in 268 BC

Answer 308

Use of large dressed stone laid out in horizontal rectangular courses as it is done now on walls

Answer 309

Use of massive horizontal and vertical dressed blocks of smaller blocks

Answer 310

Use of concrete mostly in Classical times

Answer 311

Use of bricks joined together by cement irregularly

Answer 312

Net-like work- use of bricks of equal shape and size

Answer 313

Use of long and short masonry blocks on walls

Answer 314

Use of a concrete core wall with brick or tile facing

Answer 315

Mosaic on the interior of walls

Answer 316

Window, hole in the wall

Answer 317

Closed shutters over tiny windows

Answer 318

Subrectangular, slightly tapering tiles for roofing

Answer 319

Pieces of glass used in a mosaic

Answer 320

Tubes cup in half lengthways for covering flanges on the sides of the tegulae

Answer 321

Floors of the poor- stones, bricks, and tiles pounded together and leveled with a heavy rammer (fistuca)

Answer 322

Short-sleeved or sleeveless tunic

Answer 323

Household gods (lar: cupboard god; penates: gods of ancestors)q

Answer 324

Decorated roof tiles

Answer 325

Tunic that reached the ankles

Answer 326

Patterned floor surfacing

Answer 327

Waterproof lining for cisterns

Answer 328

The lowest place

Answer 329

The middle place

Answer 330

Place of honor for the consul

Answer 331

Clothing that is put on

Answer 332

Under-tunic

Answer 333

Bride's tunic

Answer 334

Knight's tunic- "tunic with a narrow border"

Answer 335

Senatorial tunic- "tunic with a wide border"

Answer 336

Woman's full dress/ outer garment

Answer 337

Long-sleeved tunic

Answer 338

First name for the military cape- cloak worn by augurs with purple and scarlet strips

Answer 339

A general's cloak

Answer 340

A heavy woolen cloak worn by poor people for sharing

Answer 341

Woman's shawl-like garment worn outdoors

Answer 342

A common mantle or cloak made of wool which sometimes had a hood (cucullus)

Answer 343

Breeches or shorts worn by foreign and uncivilized people

Answer 344

Later more common name for the heavy military cloak

Answer 345

Clothing that is wrapped around

Answer 346

Rain coat with a hood (cucullus)

Answer 347

A heavy woolen cloak

Answer 348

Man's toga assumed on the Liberalia when a young man turned 16

Answer 349

Chalked-white toga worn by candidates running for office

Answer 350

Black wool toga worn at funerals by mourners

Answer 351

Toga with a purple border worn by boys and curule magistrates

Answer 352

Colored or painted toga worn by triumphant generals

Answer 353

Bright dinner garment worn to banquets

Answer 354

Bathrobe, robe worn after exercise

Answer 355

Regular tied shoe made of leather always worn with the toga

Answer 356

Short, simple toga

Answer 357

Sandal or slipper worn only indoors except during meals

Answer 358

Thick-soled shoe with an open ankle and wide straps worn by senators

Answer 359

Shoes with untanned black leather worn by poor people and equites

Answer 360

General term for sandal of slipper

Answer 361

Wooden shoes worn by peasants