3.3 Roman Society

Question 1

Who was given full citizenship

Answer 1

Men over 18 whom were not slaves

Question 2

How was full citizenship represented

Answer 2

3 names

Question 3

Benfits of being a citizen

Answer 3

• Free entry to public games
• Free use of public baths
• Free corn out of public funds

Question 4

Who were the senators

Answer 4

Highest public officials who sat in the Senate

Question 5

How many senators were there

Answer 5

600

Question 6

How could you become a senator

Answer 6

• Born into senetorial class (father had to be a senator)
• Been elevated to the senetorial class by the emperor

Question 7

How could you become a senator

Answer 7

• Born into senetorial class (father had to be a senator)
• Been elevated to the senetorial class by the emperor

Question 8

What must you of had to qualify to be a senator

Answer 8

Property worth over one million sesterces

Question 9

Privilages of a senator

Answer 9

• Not allowed to engage in trade
• Not paid
• Only citizens who oculd stand for election as a magistrate (elected politician)
• Reserved seating at public games
• Right to wear a broad purple stripe on the border of their toga

Question 10

Two types of political office and their responsabilities

Answer 10

• Consl (most important) - 2 elected anually
• Praetors - 12 elected each year and respobible for the legal system and imperial administration

Question 11

How could you become an equite

Answer 11

Have property over 400,000 sesterces

Question 12

Could equites engage in trade

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

How could an equite show their rank

Answer 13

A thin pruple stripe on their toga, and a gold finger ring

Question 14

How could someone become a slave

Answer 14

• Born into slavery
• Captives of war
• Exposure
• Kidnapping
• Criminals

Question 15

How many equites were there

Answer 15

Unlimited

Question 16

How were slaves sold

Answer 16

Put on platforms with placards around their necks, advertising their qualaties and characteristics like age, place of origin, level of education and state of health

Question 17

Types of slave

Answer 17

• Domestic - private households
• Industrial - Mines, factories (dangerous)
• Public

Question 18

What couldn’t a slave do

Answer 18

Marry or own property

Question 19

Why might a slave be freed

Answer 19

• If the slave had served well or done a very desireable act
• In order to marry them - maybe if they’d bore a child
• Cheaper to free elderly slaves that were too weak to work than look after them

Question 20

What were freedmen allowed to wear

Answer 20

A felt cap

Question 21

What restraints were put on freedmen

Answer 21

Not allowed to run for office, or become members of the senetorial or equites class

Question 22

What political rank could freedmen become

Answer 22

Augustales - preserve the honour of the emperor and may perform religious duties

Question 23

What were on the sides and front of the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche

Answer 23

An image of a ship, then a seat and footstall, and on the front there was a carved detail of a public ceremony

Question 24

Where is the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche

Answer 24

Pompeii (outside the Herculaneum Gate)

Question 25

How was the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche named

Answer 25

A wealthy freedwoman who buit it for herself and husband

Question 26

Why is the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche significant

Answer 26

Freedmen and freedwomen could become succesful in Roma society

Question 27

What is this: ‘Ceratus, freedman, asks for Publius Vedius Numm[ianus] as aedile’

Answer 27

An inscription in Pompeii of a decleration of suppot by a freedman for an election candidate, who may have been a former master

Question 28

What is this: ‘Naevoleia Tyche, freedwoman of Lucius, for herself and for Gaius Munatius Faustus, Augustalis and country District Dweller, to whom the councillors with the consent of the poeple decreed an honorific char for his merits. Naevoleia Tyche had this monument in her lifetime for her own freedmen and freedwomen and for those of Gaius Munatius Faustus;

Answer 28

Naevoleia was the one who built the tomb and draws attention to her own wealth and status in the city. Found on the front of the tomb

Question 29

What is this

Answer 29

The tomb of Naevoleia Tyche today

Question 30

What is this

Answer 30

An inscription on the tomb, showing intelegence to read and write