Collegiate Questions—Advanced Flashcards
What region of Greece, from which 150,000 prisoners were taken in 167 B.C., was home to an uncle of Alexander the Great summoned by Tarentum, as well as to their later ally Pyrrhus?
EPIRUS
B1: In 168 B.C., a whirlwind expedition to Illyria had captured what king?
GENTHIUS
B2: In 167 or 166 B.C., what island was made a customs-free port and given to Athens in order to reduce the income Rhodes received as a commercial center?
DELOS
Whose fondness for Alpine cheese caused his death at Lorium, leaving behind a temple for his wife Faustina, an empire that had been at peace from 138 to 161 A.D., and a second wall in Scotland?
(TITUS AURELIUS) ANTONINUS PIUS
B1: Antoninus also established a charity in memory of Faustina, which expanded what program established by Trajan as a welfare system for freeborn children?
ALIMENTA // ALIMENTARY SYSTEM
B2: Antoninus was not Hadrian’s first choice as successor. Whose death in 138 A.D. caused Hadrian to select Antoninus instead?
(LUCIUS) AELIUS CAESAR // (LUCIUS) CEIONIUS COMMODUS
What king, kept at bay by the admiral Valerius Laevinus when he allied with Hannibal after Cannae, was ousted when an Aetolian appeal led Flamininus to defeat him at Cynoscephalae?
PHILIP V
B1: What kingdom joined forces with Valerius Laevinus under its king Attalus I, and later provided Rome with significant assistance under Eumenes II?
PERGAMUM
B2: After the Second Illyrian War, what man, who had betrayed first Teuta, then Rome, fled to Philip V for protection?
DEMETRIUS OF PHAROS
As was humiliatingly commemorated in an Iranian relief, whose role changed from emperor to lowly footstool after he was defeated near Edessa by the Persian Shapur I in 260 A.D.?
VALERIAN
B1: What progenitor of Shapur founded the Sassanid dynasty?
ARDASHIR
B2: What praetorian prefect of Gordian III did well to hold the Persians at bay?
TIMESITHEUS
What emperor, who called religious councils at Seleucia and Ariminum, made Constantius Gallus Caesar to defend the East as he headed west to defeat the usurper Magnentius?
CONSTANTIUS II
B1: What wife of Constantius II opined on behalf of Julian after his brother Gallus was executed?
EUSEBIA
B2: What brother of Constantius II had Magentius executed to seize the imperial purple?
CONSTANS
Attacks by robbers under Lydius the Isaurian and the revolt of Bonosus occurred during the reign of what emperor, who defeated Florianus to take the throne after Tacitus’s death?
(MARCUS AURELIUS) PROBUS
B1: What position did Probus hold in the army of Aurelian as leader of the Cataphractāriī, one which Aurelian himself held in Gallienus’ army?
MAGISTER EQUITUM
B2: With what king of Persia, who was overthrown by Narses during Diocletian’s reign, did Probus reach a truce?
BAHRAM II
What battle, whose aftermath saw Quintus Pedius become consul, was preceded by a skirmish at Forum Gallorum and involved Decimus Brutus being freed by Hirtius and Pansa?
(BATTLE OF) MUTINA
B1: The 43 B.C. battle of Mutina was actually not the first time a man named Brutus had been besieged at Mutina — the same thing happened in 77 B.C to an ally of what rebellious consul of 78, who had tried to rescind Sulla’s legislation?
(M. AEMILIUS) LEPIDUS
B2: At what battle near Rome was Lepidus defeated by the proconsul Lutatius Catulus?
(BATTLE OF THE) MILVIAN BRIDGE
Who executed Cornificia and Plautilla, conducted a massacre at Alexandria, and murdered his brother in his mother’s arms before his assassination by Julius Martialis in 217 A.D.?
CARACALLA
B1: According to some sources, Caracalla treacherously attempted to assassinate what Parthian king after proposing marriage with his daughter?
ARTABANUS (IV / V)
B2: What peculiar change did Caracalla make to the imperial palace on the Palatine early in his reign?
DIVIDED IT IN TWO (TO AVOID LIVING WITH GETA)
What emperor forced Aemilius Lepidus — who later rebelled with Gaetulicus — to marry his sister Drusilla, though he may have engaged in incest with her after his illness in 37 A.D.?
CALIGULA // GAIUS
B1: What sister of Drusilla married her own uncle after said uncle changed the laws to make this legal?
AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER
B2: What position did Lepidus’s triumviral ancestor pass on to Augustus upon his death in 12 B.C.?
PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
What city, near which Gallienus was assassinated, was the home of the western Augustus during the Tetrarchy and the origin of a namesake edict of religious toleration in 313 A.D.?
MEDIOLANUM / MILAN
B1: The edict of Milan was agreed upon between what two Augusti?
CONSTANTINE (I // THE GREAT) and LICINIUS
B2: What general had Gallienus besieged at Mediolanum prior to his assassination?
(MANIUS ACILIUS) AUREOLUS
What man, the likely ancestor of Tasciovanus, held a stronghold at Wheathampstead captured in 54 B.C. by Caesar during his campaign in Britain, where he was the principal opponent?
CASSIVELLAUNUS
B1: What grandson of Tasciovanus, dubbed the champion of Druidism, was defeated by Aulus Plautius and Claudius in battles before being handed over to Rome by the Brigantian queen Cartimandua?
CARATACUS
B2: Name the other son of Cunobelinus, who succeeded his father with Caratacus and fought in the two day battle of Medway, dying after it due to his wounds.
TOGIDUBNUS
Through victories at Vetera and Augusta Treverorum, what future governor of Britain drove Julius Classicus and Julius Civilis back to their territory and ended the Batavian revolt?
(QUINTUS PETILLIUS) CERIALIS
B1: What city, whose modern-day name is Mainz, fell back into Cerialis’ hands with no resistance, allowing him the position to take back Augusta Treverorum?
MOGUNTIACUM
B2: Cerialis had previously served in Britain under Suetonius Paulinus, leading a legion against Boudicca from what ancient city, now known as Lincoln?
LINDUM
What praenōmen is shared by a man put to death after his plot was exposed by Minucius Augurinus and a man put to death for similar reasons despite negotiating the 493 B.C. foedus Cassiānum?
SPURIUS
B1: Who was the man that killed Spurius Maelius for distributing grain at low prices, acting as either a private citizen or the** magister equitum** of Cincinnatus?
(GAIUS) SERVILIUS AHALA
B2: Who was, much later in the Republic, granted a commission to relieve Rome of another grain shortage in 57 B.C., shortly before the Sibylline Books forbade him from gathering an army to restore a king of Egypt?
POMPEY (“THE GREAT”) // (GNAEUS) POMPEIUS (MAGNUS)
What event, in which Faenius Rufus played an integral role and which caused the deaths of Thrasea Paetus and Lucan, was a plot that took place in 65 A.D. to assassinate Nero?
PISONIAN CONSPIRACY
B1: Faenius Rufus was the colleague of what other praetorian prefect of Nero, who replaced Afranius Burrus as a “darker” influence on Nero?
(OFONIUS) TIGELLINUS
B2: What other praetorian prefect replaced Faenius Rufus, later claiming descent from Caligula and trying to usurp the throne during the reign of Galba?
NYMPHIDIUS SABINUS
What political position was used to sell 25 consulships in a day by one man — Cleander — and to accuse rivals of treason during Tiberius’ island retirement by another — Sejanus?
PRAETORIAN PREFECT // PRAEFECTUS PRAETŌRIŌ
B1: Cleander was chamberlain and praetorian prefect under what emperor, though he was later replaced by Eclectus in the former position and Laetus in the latter?
COMMODUS
B2: Cleander was ultimately sacrificed to the mob to appease their anger over what sort of event?
FAMINE // GRAIN SHORTAGE
