Chapter 25 & 26 Social History

Question 1

What was the alliance between 3 leaders called?

Answer 1

The Triumvirate

Question 2

Who were part of the alliance?

Answer 2

Caesar, Pompey, Crassus

Question 3

When was the alliance formed?

Answer 3

60BC

Question 4

When did Caesar become consul?

Answer 4

59BC

Question 5

Why was the senate unable to oppose the alliance?

Answer 5

The alliance was supported by
- the army
- the knights
- the people

Question 6

How long did Caesar fight in Gaul?

Answer 6

A decade.

Question 7

What sources do we have of these battles and who wrote these sources?

Answer 7

Caesar wrote them himself.

He wrote the seven books of his Commentaries of the War in Gaul

Question 8

When did Caesar invade Britain?

Answer 8

55 and 54 BC

Question 9

Did Caesar manage to conquer Britain?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

What happened to Crassus?

Answer 10

He was killed in Parthia

Question 11

When did Crassus die?

Answer 11

53BC

Question 12

Who did Pompey become more aligned to?

Answer 12

The Senate

Question 13

What did Caesar do on the 10th January 49 BC and what was the effect of this?

Answer 13

He brought his army from Gaul to Italy. He technically had declared a civil war.

Question 14

What did Caesar say after one hour of solitary thought?

Answer 14

“iacta alea est!” (The die is cast!)

Question 15

Where did most of the senate and Pompey go?

Answer 15

Across the Adriatic to Greece

Question 16

Where did Caesar win victories in 48 BC?

Answer 16

Pharsalus in Greece

Question 17

What happened to Pompey?

Answer 17

Pompey fled to Egypt but was stabbed to death.

Question 18

What was the origin of “veni, vidi, vici”?

Answer 18

When he polished off his opponents in Asia very quickly.

Question 19

Who did Caesar have a notorious love affair?

Answer 19

Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt

Question 20

When did Caesar become dictator?

Answer 20

First in 49 BC and then for life in 45 BC

Question 21

Why was Caesar’s life Dictatorship unusual?

Answer 21

Normally dictators only 6 months to solve a specific crisis.

Question 22

Who lead the conspirators to the assassination of Caesar?

Answer 22

Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius

Question 23

Which two men sought to avenge Caesar?

Answer 23

Marcus Antonius a friend and Octavian his great nephew

Question 24

What event usually marked the end of a girl’s childhood?

Answer 24

On the eve of their marriage

Question 25

What were the Lares?

Answer 25

Household Gods

Question 26

When would a boy be considered an adult.

Answer 26

Whenever the son and father agreed to in his teen years.

Question 27

On what day would the boy adulthood ceremony take place?

Answer 27

17 March, the festival of Liber and Liberia

Question 28

What would a boy lay before the Lares?

Answer 28

His childhood toga

and leather collar with its amulet from a freedman’s son

Question 29

What was the difference between a child’s toga and the toga of a man?

Answer 29

Boy’s toga was purple bordered whereas an adult’s toga had white

Question 30

What happened at the tablularium?

Answer 30

He was registered as a full citizen and enrolled in his tribe, one of the voting groups of ancient Rome

Question 31

Who would help upper-class youth learn about government and public administration?

Answer 31

By guidance by his father or some other distinguished individual

Question 32

Who did Cicero’s father send him to? What did Cicero learn from him?

Answer 32

To the lawyer Quintus Mucius Scaevola. Cicero learnt all his epigrammatic remarks.

Question 33

Who was a rhetor?

Answer 33

A rhetoric teacher.

Question 34

Who had the sophists been?

Answer 34

The travelling teachers of the Greek world.

Question 35

What was involved in the subject of rhetoric?

Answer 35

Learning how to argue a case clearly and elegantly

Question 36

How would students go about learning rhetoric?

Answer 36

They would participate in debates, often on imaginary law cases.

Question 37

Why was public speaking so important in Roman politics?

Answer 37

Only was of communicating back in the day.

Question 38

What would controversiae (debates) involve?

Answer 38

Abstract/General themes such as “Should one marry?”

Particular themes related to a situation such as “Should I cross the Alps to invade Italy?”

Question 39

Heliodorus is described by Quintus as ‘Graecōrum longē doctissimus’. What does this mean?

Answer 39

by far the most learned of the greeks

Question 40

At this time in Rome, what culture or nationality did most rhētores come from?

Answer 40

Greek Nationality

Question 41

What different courses of life might follow the study of rhetoric for upper-class Romans?

Answer 41

A career of politcs or study philosophy as Quintus is to do.