Midterm: Lessons 1-13 Flashcards
Roman commoner
plebeian
Roman nobleman
patrician
an officer of the king who carried his symbol of power (fasces)
lictor
chief priest; established by Numa
Pontifex Maximus
two chief magistrates elected to rule the Republic
consuls
representatives chose to protect the rights of plebeians
tribunes
Roman official who supervised public morals
censor
a general made sole military ruler during a time of crises
dictator
man put in charge of Roman provinces (formerly praetor)
pro-consul
self-governed territories under the dominion of Rome
provinces
defeated Latins; ruled as Latin king; founded Alba Longa
Aeneas
Roman solider who defended the Pons Sublicius
Horatius Cocles
first Roman laws; written and displayed in the forum
Laws of the Twelve Tables
dictator who defeated Etruscans at Veil, was exiled, and returned to save Rome from the Gauls
Camillus
dictator who immediately relinquished his power after defeating the Aequians and went back to farming
Cincinnatus
dictator during the Second Punic War; “the Delayer”
Quintus Fabius Maximus
founder of Carthage; clever with an ox skin
Dido
son of Hamilcar; general of Carthage
Hannibal
brother of Tiberius; great Roman enforcer
Caius Gracchus
day that Caesar was murdered
Ides of March
king of Macedon; Philip’s son
Perseus
consul; opposed Octavius for rule of Rome
Mark Antony
consul; famous orator; gave series of orations against Catiline
Cicero
king of Syria; plotted with Philip against Rome
Antiochus
consul sent to defeat Jugurtha; reorganized Roman army
Caius Marius
sister of Ptolemy; made Mark Antony lose his mind
Cleopatra
soldier under Pompey; conspired to murder Caesar
Marcus Brutus
consul taken captive when he led an attack against the Carthagenian armies
Regulus
king of Pontus; repeatedly caused Rome trouble
Mithridates
led rebellion of gladiators
Spartacus
first general to use Roman army to take Rome itself captive
Sulla
two cities destroyed by Rome in 146 B.C.
Carthage, Corinth
Carthaginian general who swore revenge against Rome after First Punic War
Hamilcar
defeated Mithridates; member of First Triumvirate
Pompey
the year Rome became “Mistress of the Mediterranean”
133 B.C.
Adopted son of the most famous Scipio; sent to burn Carthage
Aemilianus
Most famous Scipio; defeated Hannibal at Zama
Africanus
Daughter of most famous Scipio; mother of Gracchi brothers
Cornelia
Brother of the most famous Scipio; defeated the Syrians
Lucius
Consul who led attack on Carthaginians in Spain
Publius Cornelius
Who said, “Veni, vidi, vici.”
Caesar
Who said, “To be ignorant of what happened before you were born, is to remain forever a child.”
Cicero
Who said, “For, whenever I stamp with my foot in any part of Italy, there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.”
Pompey
Who said, “Take we the course which the signs of the gods and the false dealing of our foes point out. The die is cast!”
Caesar
Who said, “Et tu, Brute?”
Caesar
List the members of the First Triumvirate
Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
List the members of the Second Triumvirate
Octavius, Mark Antony, and Lepidus
What error did C.S. Lewis describe as “the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited,” and what is the only cure?
chronological snobbery; it can only be cured by studying history.
