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1
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What year did Clodius build a shrine to the goddess liberty and why?

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57 BC; when Cicero was exiled - Cat conspiracy

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SOURCE THIS - (our ancestors) nothing more renowned than their decision to entrust the worship of the gods and the highest interests of the state to the same men

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Cicero, On his House, 8.2a

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Describe Horace as a source?

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Writing under Augustus; looking back at the final decades of the republican era/religious desolation - urging new generation to restore temples and religious traditions

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SOURCE THIS - ‘you will expiate the sins of your ancestors until you have rebuilt the temples’

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Horace - Odes - 3.6.1

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5
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When did Augustus say he restored 82 temples

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Res Gestae - 20

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Beard’s view on Cicero as a source?

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Engaged participant - 1998

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Beard’s view on Livy as a source?

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Distanced annalistic historian - 1998

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The three temples Pompey can be credited with?

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Hercues, Minerva, Venus Victrix

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In 55 BC, Pompey dedicated some temples, what is the problem with this?

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Part of a lavish scheme to give respectability to a place of popular entertainment

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10
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Which deity is an ancestor of the Julii

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Venus Genetrix

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11
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When was the Bona Dea scadal?

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62-61 BC

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12
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How long was the flamen dialis inactive

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70 years

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What was the flamen dialis?

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Ancient priesthood of Jupiter; example of religious neglect

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14
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Why were the rituals of war no longer appropriate?

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Expansion

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What were the customs involving in the rituals of war?

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Priests go to the border of rome’s territory and hurl a ritual spear into the enemy’s land

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16
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What was evocatio?

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Roman commander offering his home to a patron deity of an enemy - typically w/ a temple

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17
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How did evocatio develop?

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At the end of the republic, imperail expansion, provincial territory could be deemed roman enough to stand for rome - build temple there - steal their gods

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18
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What does the evolution of evocatio say about Roman religion?

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It adapted to expansion; consensus that religion belonged high up on the public agenda

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19
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How did the gods play into political rivalry?

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Rivals could claim privileged access to gods

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20
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What was the Lex Ogulnia?

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Gave plebians places in the pontifical and augural colleges

21
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When was the lex ogulnia?

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300 BC

22
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What did patricans think of the lex ogulnia?

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Religious contamination = bring disaster to the state

23
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Who were the optimates?

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Voiced the interests of the traditional governing class

24
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Populares?

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Claimed to speak for the people; mass support

25
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SOURCE THIS - ‘walk in grandeur before the eyes of the people, some flaunting their priesthoods and consulships, just as if these were honours and not stolen goods’

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Sallust - Jugurthine War - 31.10

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How was the pontifex maximus organised?

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Limited form of popular election since the third century BC

27
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How many bills were attempted to replaced the tradition system of the pontifex maximus with a popular election?

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Two; approved in 104 BC

28
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The priests of the four major colleges?

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Pontifces, Augures, decemviri, triumviri

29
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The nomination process of priesthoods?

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Popular assembly; 17 out of the 35 roman tribes

30
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What did the change in nomination process mean for the priests?

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No longer had control over membership

31
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SOURCE THIS - ______ stresses the personal motives of Doitius - failing to co-operate into the pontifical college, reformed method of entry

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Suetonius - Nero - 1.1

32
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What were the details of nominations? (priestly)

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Each member of the college should make a nomination, no more than 2 priests could nominate the same

33
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What did the requirements of nominations mean for the priesthoods?

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No college could fix the election; represents a political and religious challenge to the dominance of traditioanl elite

34
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What happened in 114-113 BC?

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Unchaste vestal virgin trial

35
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What led people to interpret the unchaste vestal virigin trial as a scandal?

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Equestrian’s daughter struck by lightning, dress pulled up to her waist - interpreted by the Etruscan haruspices as an indication of a scandal involving vestals and knights

36
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Who led the second trial?

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Sextus Peducaeus - tribune of 113

37
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What happened at the second trial of the vestal virgins?

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The remaining two were found guilty; power of the people to control behaviour of public religious officials had been asserted

38
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What did Cicero and Clodius but heads about? On the _______?

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On the response of the haruspices

39
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What did Cicero argue about Clodius regarding the response of the haruspices?

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Clodius’ disruption of the Megalesian games - Magna Mater’s honour, and rituals performed improperly, rituals of the Bona Dea

40
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What did Clodius argue about Cicero regarding the response of the haruspices?

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Cicero’s destruction of the shrine of liberty

41
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In the beginning of Cicero’s against Catiline speeches; what does he draw on?

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Traditions of the temple they are in; evokes Jupiter the slayer, allusions to the mythical foundation of the temple, vowed by Romulus

42
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What reasons can you attribute Clodius to be the enemy of the gods?

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invasion of the rites of Bona Dea, the destruction of the auspices

43
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Caesar’s assassination - what followed this

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Right to have a priest (flamen) of his cult, adorn his house w/ a pediment, place his own image in formal processions of images of the gods, divine status

44
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When was Cicero’s formal decree of deification?

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42 BC

45
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Why could you link Caesar’s divine symbols to have Hellenistic origins?

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Hellenistic kings - public celebration on birthday, renaming calander month and electoral tribe in his honour

46
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What did association to a God mean?

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Protection

47
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SOURCE THIS - The more you know you’re a man, you become a god’

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Plutarch Pompey 27

48
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What were Pompey’s divine honours?

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Month renamed after him at Mytilene, cult on the island of Delos, cult officials - Pompeiastai, honoured as saviour at Samos, temples built to house his cult

49
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Allusion of Plutarch Pompey 27

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Remember you’re a man

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