Generals/Other important "Romans" Flashcards
What man was Pontifex Maximus in the year 130 B.C.?
P. Mucius Scaevola
Praetorian Prefect of the East, 329-337, executed by Constantius II
Flavius Ablabius/Ablavius
Tutored Constantius II
Leader of an Egyptian rebellion, 296-297 A.D, defeated by Diocletian
Achilleus
Freedwoman and mistress of Nero…
Acte Claudia
Supported by Seneca
Who buried Nero’s body in the family tombs of the Domitii in the Pincian hills?
To exorcise the evil spirit of Nero, Paschal II (1099) built here a small chapel which became in the thirteenth century the church of S. Maria del Popolo (HJ 446; Arm. 319; BC 1877, 194; 1914, 376‑377).4(https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/sepulcra.html)
Acte Claudia
What man, alongside his college Macrinus, was a Praetorian Prefect of Caracalla and prefered by the troops to rule but declined due to his age?
Marcus Oclantinus Adventus
“The army first chose Adventus as their emperor because he was a military man and a praetorian prefect of considerable ability; he declined the honor, however, pleading his advanced age.” - Herodian History of the Roman Empire (Book 4, Chapter 14)
Who led a rebellion of 40,000 Aedui in A.D. 21?
Julius Sacrovir
At what site in 217 B.C. did Hannibal trick Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator by tying torches to the horns of oxs?
Ager Falernus
What general of Hannibal destroyed the calvalry of Gnaeus Servilius Geminus’ consular army in 217?
Marhabal
The consul Gnaeus Servilius Geminus had sent his cavalry ahead, led by the praetor Gaius Centenius. After the battle of Trasimene, Maharbal (leading a detachment of spear-men and cavalry) successfully intercepted Centinius and his detachment of 4000 cavalry. When Maharbal’s force met with Centenius half of the Romans were killed, and the rest retreated. The surviving Roman cavalry were followed to a hill where they eventually surrendered.
After Hannibal refused to march on Rome, Which of his generals supposedly said,”you, Hannibal, know how to gain a victory; but you do not know how to use it.”
Latin: “Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.”
Marhabal
What son of Himilco commanded the besieging forces at Saguntum?
According to Livy, he carried on the operations with such vigour that Hannibal’s absence was hardly felt.
Marhabal
Who demanded the recall of Rome’s best general M. Furius Camillus, after Brennus’ capture of the city?
Q. Caecidius
When Quintus bore the decree of the senate to Marcus and pleaded that he ignore any past injury inflicted by his country, Marcus responded with, “I could not have prayed to the gods that the Romans might some time long for me if I had cherished any such feeling as that towards them. Now I pray the nobler prayer that I may render my country a service equal to the calamity that has befallen her.”
During Brennus’ siege of the Capitoline, what priest left the hill to conduct his yearly sacrifice in the temple of Vesta?
Dorso
“When the Gauls could find no means for scaling the Capitol they remained quietly in camp in order to reduce the defenders by famine. A certain priest named Dorso went down from the Capitol to make a certain yearly sacrifice in the temple of Vesta, and passed safely, with the sacred utensils, through the ranks of the enemy, who were either awed by his courage or had respect for his piety and his venerable appearance. Thus he who had incurred danger for the sake of his holy office was saved by it.”
Who commanded the Roman forces at the second battle of Lake Vadimo?
P. Cornelius Dollabella
Who were the three wives of Elagabalus?
Julia Comelia
Paula, Julia Aquilia Severa, and Annia Faustina
Severa was a Vestal Virgin, Faustin was descended from Aurelius, and Paula was a nobody.
Who begged doctors for a genital alteration…
wore rouge and a pearl necklace, and asked to be named
Bassiana
Elagalbalus/Heliogabalus, Varius Avitus
What deity was identified with a Phrygian deity named Agdistis who had both male and female genitals?
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Cybele
Name either the Carian charioteer by whom Elagabalus “was termed wife, mistress, and queen” according to Cassius Dio, or the Vestal Virgin whom Elagabalus married in an act even more shocking
to Roman sensibilities.
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HIEROCLES or (JULIA) AQUILIA SEVERA
What man, whose kinsman Iunius Blaesus almost trapped the Numidian Tacfarinas, slowly gained more strength after perhaps assassinating Drusus, until Antonia the Younger sent Tiberius a timely warning?
L. Aelius Seianus
