97-109 Vocab Chapter 5

Question 0

Cicero

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Dominated the first half of the thus literary age

Lap evading political figure of the late republic but also an outstanding scholar, author,lawyer, and statesman

Question 1

Pax Romana

Answer 1

Roman peace

Question 2

Virgil

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Homer of Rome

Considered the greatest roman poet

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Horace

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Became the “poet of the Augustan age”

Question 4

Ovid

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Wrote about mythology and love

Augustus banned hi, from three public libraries and exiled him from Rome

Question 5

Livy

Answer 5

Historian

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Tacitus

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Historian

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Plutarch

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Probably the most famous Greek writer in the Roman Empire

Question 8

Galen

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Greek physician

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Ptolemy

Answer 9

Created the geocentric theory

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Geocentric theory

Answer 10

States that earth was the center if the universe

Everything revolves around the earth

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Aqueducts

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Supply water to many of their cities

Water supply across empire

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Gladiators

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Fighters who fought at coliseums for spectators amusements

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Epicureanism

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True happiness comes only as man fess his mind from fear and his body of pain

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Lucretius

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Probably the greatest exponent for Epicureanism in the roman world

Question 15

Seneca

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Tutor for the emperor Nero and an outstanding writer and thinker

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Stoicism

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Teaches that the highest good is the pursuit of the virtues of courage, dignity, duty, simplicity, of life, and service to fellow men

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Aurelius

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Scholar, philosopher, administrator, and last of the so called Good Emperors of Rome

Question 18

Pontifex Maximus

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Greatest priest