Chapter 5 (I & II) Flashcards
___ was the period of peace in the Mediterranean world lasting from ___ to ___.
Pax Romana
31 BC
AD 180
What are three names Octavian was called?
Augustus
princeps
Caesar
___ was instituted by Octavian to provide for fairer ___ of provinces.
A census
taxing
How often was a census taken?
every 14 years
How did corrupt leaders gain the people’s favor?
With “free” grain and amusements (the colosseum).
What culture greatly influenced the Roman culture?
Greek
Who was called the “Homer of Rome”?
Virgil
Who was the man with the theory stating that earth was the center of the universe?
What was this theory called?
Ptolemy
Geocentric theory
Who was the leading Stoic philosopher of the Roman Empire?
Which emperor was his pupil?
Seneca
Nero
Why did Epicurean philosophy fail to help raise the declining moral standards of the Roman Empire?
It promoted bad morals.
What did Pax Romana mean?
“Roman Peace”
What did princeps mean?
Why was it popular among the common people?
“first citizen”
it conveyed the idea that Augustus was one of them, not a noble
___ is considered the greatest Roman poet and he glorified Rome in his epic poem ___. This poem was modeled after ___ and ___.
Virgil
the Aeneid
the Iliad and the Odyssey
“Poet of the Augustan Age”
Horace
___ wrote about mythology and love. His best known work is ___.
Ovid
Metamorphoses
wrote a lengthy history of Rome
Livy
wrote bitter satires on the loose morals and social problems of the empire
Juvenal
historian who favored the old republic over life under the self-centered emperors
Tacitus
___ was a city destroyed by the volcanic eruption of ___ on the day ___.
Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius
August 24, AD 79
___ advanced in medicine by experimenting with animals to study the ___, ___, ___, and ___.
Galen lungs heart arteries blood
Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician
Ptolemy
supplied water to many Roman cities
aqueducts
What sums up Epicurean philosophy?
There is nothing to fear in God.
There is nothing to be alarmed about in death.
God is easily obtained.
Evil is easily endured.
poet who was probably the greatest expounder of Epicureanism in the Roman world
Lucretius
