QUOTES Flashcards

Question

QUOTE: Equestrians

Answer 1

“Thus Augustus succeeded in building up an efficient body of salaried professional administrators.” SCULLARD

Answer 2

“He was not, however, hostile to wealthy and public-spirited freedmen gaining some social recognition.”JONES

Answer 3

Aug went out of his way to revive the traditional senate.” AWH

Answer 4

“He attempted to regenerate society by social reform.” SCULLARD

Answer 5

“I repaired 82 temples of the gods in the city,” RES GESTAE

Answer 6

“related well to the policy which Augustus pursued in encouraging the role of small farmers in Italian agriculture.” SHOTTER

Answer 7

“He appears to have been too strict on his daughter Julia JONES "He let her waste away to death, exiled and disgraced, by slow starvation." TACITUS

Answer 8

“Her greatest service to the Romans lay in her devotion to Octavian and in the civilising influence she brought to bear on him.” PAYNE “All of her images and actions were closely connected with marriage, family and traditional Roman morality” MCMANUS

Answer 9

“probably the only man whom he could absolutely trust.” JONES

Answer 10

"Some suspected his wife of foul play.” TACITUS “Then two pieces of news became known simultaneously: Augustus was dead and Tiberius was in control.” TACITUS “an ex-parameter actually swore that he had seen Augustus’ spirit soaring up to Heaven through the flames.” SUETONIUS

Answer 11

“Ultimate legacy of Augustus was sweep of stability that the Roman world gained.” TACITUS

Answer 12

Theoretically it was the princeps’ bodyguard.” SALMON

Answer 13

“...was about 500,000. Of these I settled in colonies or sent back into their own towns more than 300,000, and to all I assigned lands or gave money as a reward for military service.” RES GESTAE “Seduced the army with bonuses.” TACITUS "as a result of military victories won for them by troops loyal to them.” SHOTTER

Answer 14

“In Augustus, these subjects had in political patron whose duty it was to take care of the whole empire ” ECK

Answer 15

“Betrothals were broken or divorces dictated when alliances between men became animosities.” POMEROY “To mind the house and watch over the children.” TACITUS

Answer 16

“Agrippina’s exceptionally illustrious birth is indisputable.” TACITUS, ANNALS “Her pedigree was impeccable.” S. PEROWNE “Agrippina...would make much of her Julian descent, a descent that came through the bloodline and was not conferred merely through adoption.” BARRETT “True, Renaissance man.” SUETONIUS

Answer 17

“The triumph of Germanicus…was a memory that his daughter would exploit to the full.” BARRETT “It was the 1st specific political movement formed by a woman.” BAUMANN “Mother and son were left to starve in their separate places of imprisonment...she must have been the single most important influence on her daughter and namesake.” M.T.GRIFFIN

Answer 18

“It is interesting to note that they thought it best not to have children while Tiberius was still alive.” T. WEIDEMANN

Answer 19

“Agrippina, remembering the weakness of her mother’s position after the death of Germanicus, set out to find a husband.” GRIFFIN

Answer 20

Was in the habit of consulting him constantly...and in fact she was rather more familiar in her conduct towards him than became a niece.” CASSIUS DIO

Answer 21

“She was no paragon of female virtue..she was prepared, if necessary, to wade through slaughter to a throne.” SALMON

Answer 22

"Had gone so far as to commit bigamy...so Claudius executed her.” SUETONIUS

Answer 23

“Agrippina used her influence over Claudius not only to consolidate Nero’s claims, but also to enhance her own position.” BAUMAN

Answer 24

At first Agrippina managed for him all the business of the empire…” CASSIUS DIO

Answer 25

“Agrippina's loss of influence is illustrated by the disappearance of her portrait from the coinage.” WEIDEMANN

Answer 26

“Depictions of Agrippina on coinage and statuary...appears as matron and priestess...a central figure in the continuity of the dynasty.” GRUEN

Answer 27

“This was the end which Agrippina had anticipated for years. When she asked astrologers...they answered he would become emperor but kill his mother. Her reply was “Let him kill me- provided he becomes emperor.” TACITUS

Answer 28

The matricide remains…” WARMINGTON

Answer 29

"Her death caused changes in her son’s behaviour.” GRANT “She cried out, strike here-pointing to her womb” Tacitus

Answer 30

“Agrippina became the first woman during her lifetime to share with a reigning princeps the face of an official coin minted in Rome.” BARRETT

Answer 31

“Agrippina destroyed rivals, enemies and those whose wealth she desired.” “Undoubtedly,she was hoping one day to rule the world through her son.” “She was prepared if necessary to wade through slaughter to a throne.”

Answer 32

“It is when Agrippina is judged by her achievements, rather than by her personality or character, that she demands admiration.” “The Roman imperial system was unfair to women like Agrippina.”

Answer 33

“Egypt is the gift of the Nile.” HERODOTUS (Greek historian)

Answer 34

“None can live without you.”

Answer 35

“He dispatches every official of the Royal domain...”Tomb of REKHMIRE (vizier of Thutmose III)

Answer 36

“He is beaten savagely.” LANSING PAPYRUS

Answer 37

“living prisoners: 340. Hands:83…One fine coat of mail belonging to the enemy.” Annals of Thutmose III records some booty taken after surrender of Megiddo:

Answer 38

They...draw out the brain through the nostrils.” HERODOTUS

Answer 39

"The holy hill of the beginning” HATSHEPSUT

Answer 40

"Three quarters constructed by a single king.” HAYES

Answer 41

“Gold was the favoured metal for jewellery” FREED, EGYPT'S GOLDEN AGE

Answer 42

“My heart flutters hastily when I think of my love for you.” BE STILL MY HEART

Answer 43

“Put the writings in your heart, and you will be protected from all kinds of toil. You will become a wort

Answer 44

"Take a wife while you are young; that she make a song for you.”