Chapter 3 Flashcards
Rome was built on a hilly site known as the seven hills on the _____ bank of the _____ river.
east
Tiber
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.
plebeians
_____ was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Caesar.
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
In the sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta, _____ is pictured _____.
Cupid
riding a dolphin
Virgil is the author of ___.
Aeneid
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _____.
Georgics
Augustus did not view the writings of _____, favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome.
Ovid
Ovid is the author of the _____.
Metamorphoses
The sand that covered the floor of the Colosseum was know as the _____.
arena
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the
_____, the _____ on the second, and the _____ on the third which was favored
by the Romans.
Tuscan order
Ionic
Corinthian
Which order was favored by the Romans
Corinthian
