About Rome - Midterm

Question 1

a sight for slaves near Pompeii, with spaces that were strategically hidden from the rest of the guests, how slaves moved without being seen

Answer 1

Oplantis

Question 2

how slaves demonstrated resistance

Answer 2

truancy, inefficiency, pilfering, sabotage, violence

Question 3

the act of freeing an enslaved person

Answer 3

manumission

Question 4

methods of manumission

Answer 4

purchasing (peculium), appearance before a consul or praetor, testamentary manumission (free will of the captor)

Question 5

reasons for freeing a slave

Answer 5

kindness, adoption/marriage/bastard child, greed, business

Question 6

a freedman or freedwoman

Answer 6

libertus or liberta

Question 7

the rights of free slaves

Answer 7

citizens, not eligible to vote, hold office, or serve in the army (lower status)

Question 8

Tiro becomes Marcus Tullius (M)arcus (T)ullius Tiro

Answer 8

freed slave names take after their master

Question 9

praenomen

Answer 9

first name/personal name

Question 10

nomen

Answer 10

clan or generational name

Question 11

cognomen

Answer 11

smaller family name, name of branch of their clan

Question 12

nomen of the man with a feminine ending

Answer 12

women’s names

Question 13

how Roman class was determined

Answer 13

ownership of property

Question 14

ranking of class from lowest to highest

Answer 14

enslaved, free people, commons, equestrians, senators, imperial domus

Question 15

novus homo

Answer 15

a man who enters politics from a non-senatorial family

Question 16

senatorial dress

Answer 16

purple stripe on toga and special shoes

Question 17

the “working” wealthy

Answer 17

merchants often involved in commerce, homes were a record of wealth and prestige

Question 18

lower class

Answer 18

day laborers, agriculture (farmers)

Question 19

rhetor

Answer 19

skilled in oratory and taught others, particularly elites, to make arguments, could be paid by families to instruct their children

Question 20

doctor or midwife

Answer 20

skilled craftsmen, rudimentary training via apprenticeships, good with bile bad with colds

Question 21

baker

Answer 21

owned an oven, had access to enslaved individuals and grain

Question 22

fuller

Answer 22

launderer, urine was used as detergent

Question 23

barman

Answer 23

owned or rented part of a house, less capital associated with the bar

Question 24

Roman portraiture details and materials

Answer 24

idealized features combined with portraiture, made of cast metal and inlaid eyes

Question 25

verism

Answer 25

style of Late Roman portraiture that shows the imperfections of the subject

Question 26

ties of verism

Answer 26

Etruscan realistic cinerary urns, Roman tradition of producing masks of ancestors, Egyptian influence, Greek artisans