Ch. 33 & 34 Culture

Question 1

Two risks involved in childbirth in the ancient world.

Answer 1

miscarriages and infant/child mortality

Question 2

What happened to Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, before she could give birth

Answer 2

died in childbirth because of miscarriage

Question 3

Two causes of death of poor mothers and infants

Answer 3

malnutrition and lack of medical attention

Question 4

What heinous practice was sometimes adopted by those unable/unwilling to bring up their children?

Answer 4

abandon them to die or be picked up on the street

Question 5

Two ceremonies following birth

Answer 5

1) father takes baby in arms to acknowledge legitimacy

2) 8th day, girl/9th day, boy—purification when child is named

Question 6

What sorts of small presents strung together as a necklace would be given to children?

Answer 6

small everyday objects: swords, axes, etc.

Question 7

What is the Latin for gold, bronze, or leather locket given to children?

Answer 7

bulla

Question 8

What does the bulla contain?

Answer 8

a lucky charm or mascot

Question 9

What are some typical things that Roman children played with?

Answer 9

terracotta dolls, pet mice, birds, dogs, and ponies

Question 10

heads and tails

Answer 10

Capita et navia

Question 11

What are some games/activities Roman children played?

Answer 11

building toy houses, playing odds and evens, riding a long stick, harnessing mice to a little cart

Question 12

Who wrote about the devastation felt by Regulus upon his son’s death?

Answer 12

Pliny

Question 13

Lucretius

Answer 13

death no longer affords domestic harmony

Question 14

Virgil

Answer 14

a happy family in a country setting

Question 15

Catullus

Answer 15

a delightful wish for a family/baby

Question 16

What were the spheres over which Apollo exercised divine power?

Answer 16

sun, harmony, calm, music, poetry, archery, medicine, disease, prophecy

Question 17

Where was Delphi located in Greece?

Answer 17

southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, 2,000 ft above the Gulf of Corinth

Question 18

What is the name given to the two 1,000-foot great cliffs that tower above Delphi?

Answer 18

the Shining Rocks

Question 19

What is the name given to the road taken by Quintus and Pompey to the sacred Delphic precinct?

Answer 19

Sacred Way (Via Sacra)

Question 20

Why was Apollo called Pythian and his Delphic prophetess Pythia?

Answer 20

Apollo killed Python, the dragon who guarded Delphi

Question 21

What role did Zeus play in establishing Delphi as the center of the world?

Answer 21

He sent 2 eagles from the opposite ends of the sky and they met at Delphi

Question 22

What was the Lydian king Croesus told by Pythia? What was the result?

Answer 22

If Croesus crossed the river Halys, he will destroy a mighty empire.

His own empire was defeated (not Persia as he had assumed)

Question 23

What was Athenian general Themistocles told by Pythia? What was the result?

Answer 23

that the wooden wall only shall not fail

(Athen’s wooden ships would save Athens) Athens won a great naval victory at Salamis

Question 24

What are the most important/well-preserved architectural monuments at Delphi?

Answer 24

the treasury of the Athenians, stadium, temple of Apollo, theater

Question 25

What was the famous natural phenomenon at Delphi? What did it provide Roman poets?

Answer 25

Castalian Spring

purification and inspiration

Question 26

grave inscription name

Answer 26

epitaphs