Ch. 3 Rome Flashcards
________ was built on a hilly site known as the seven hills on the east bank of the _______ .
Rome
Tiber river
The term ________ refers to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome .
patricians
The term ________ refers to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.
plebians
_________________ was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate.
Marcus Junius Brutus
______ was the roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people.
Cicero
_________ refers to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts.
Imagines
_______ refers to the “dutifulness”, a relationship that prescribed that a family and clients equally owned “total obedience” to their parents in ancient Rome.
Pietas
Pietas refers to the _________, a relationship that prescribed that a family and clients equally owned ___________to their parents in ancient Rome.
“dutifulness”
“total obedience”
In the sculpture of ____________, Cupid is pictured riding a dolphin.
Augustus of Primaporta
_______ is the author of Aeneid.
Virgil
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _______.
Georgics
________ did not view the writings of Ovid favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome.
Augustus
_____ is the author of the Metamorphoses.
Ovid
The sand that covered the floor of the ________ was know as the arena.
Colosseum
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the _______ order, the _______ on the second, and the _______ on the third which was favored by the Romans.
ground floor: Tuscan
second floor: Ionic
third floor: Corinthian
