Humanities -- Rome Flashcards
Rome was built on what hilly sight near the east bank of the Tiber River?
the seven hills
refers to land owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome
patricians
refers to the poorer class who were craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome
plebeians
who was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate?
Marcus Junius Brutus
who was the Roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people
Cicero
what refers to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts?
imagines
what refers to “dutifulness,” a relationship that prescribed that a family and clients equally owned “total obedience” to their parents in ancient Rome?
pietas
In what sculpture is Cupid pictured riding a dolphin?
Augustus of Primaporta
Virgil is the author of what book?
Aeneid
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’ gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was known as the what?
Georgics
Augustus did not view the writings of Ovid favorably, so he did what?
permanently banished him from Rome
Ovid is the author of what?
Metamorphoses
the sand that covered the floor of the Colosseum was known as what?
the arena
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order; on the GROUND floor which order?
Tuscan
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order; on the second floor was which order?
Ionic
