Roman Amusement Flashcards
What was the term for balls filled with hair, feather, or air?
Folles
What was the term for a game of catch?
Trigon
What was the term for rugby or football?
Harpastum
What was the term for chess?
latrunculi
What was the term for backgammon?
Duodecem scripta
What was the term for checkers?
Calculi
What was the term for a game similar to Italian mora?
Micatio
What was the term for knucklebones?
Tali
What was the term for a four-sided dice that lacked the numbers 2 and 5?
Tesserae
What was the term for the dice box which the dice were thrown?
Fritillus
What was the term for the highest throw (All different numbers)?
Venus
What was the term for the middle throw (Had a 6 and three other numbers)?
Senio
What was the term for the lowest throw (All the same number)?
Vulture
What was the term for the lowest of the Vultures throws (Only ones)?
Dogs
What was the term for a private game?
Munera
What was the term for public games?
Ludi
What was the term for dramatic performances in a theater?
Ludi scaenici
What was the term for a mime?
Mimus, -i, m.
What was the term for pantomimie?
Pantomimus, -i, m.
What was the term for comedies?
Comoediae
What was the term for tragedies?
Tragaediae
What was the term for the manager in producing a play?
Dominus gregis
What was the term for a troupe of inferior actors?
Grex
What was the term for the props necessary for a play?
Ornamenta
What was the term for the front line of the stage?
Proscaenium
What was the term for the stage for the actor, located behind the front line?
Scaena
What was the term for the spectators?
Cavea
What was the term for the semicircular passage in the middle on the audience?
Praecinctio
What was the term for groups of rows?
Meniana
What was the term for the awnings that protected from rain and sun?
Vela
What was the term for the Roman circus?
Circus
What was the term for chariot races?
Ludi circenses
What was the term for chariot companies or factions?
Factiones
What was the term for red
Russata
What was the term for white?
Albata
What was the term for blue?
Veneta
What was the term for green?
Prasina
What was the term for purple?
Purpurea
What was the term for gold?
Aurea
Who added the colors purple and gold the the racing factions?
Domitian
What was the term for the starting gates?
Porta pompae
What was the term for the staring gates, this word also ment prison?
Carceres
What was the term for the ending gate?
Porta triumphalis
What was the term for the exterior part of the building composed of towers and barriers?
Oppidum
What was the term for the backbone or center part of the circus?
Spinae
What was the term for the pillars or turning posts?
Metae
What were the instruments used to count laps, meaning “eggs and dolphins”?
Ova at delphini
What was the term for the marble platform used by magistrates?
Podium
What was the term for the chariotdriver?
Auriga / agitator
What was the term for the circus procession for magistrates?
Pompa circensis
What was the term for beast hunts?
Venationes
What was the term for the mock battle among kids?
Ludus Troiae
What was the term for the Flavian Ampitheater?
Colosseum
What year was the Colosseum opened?
80 AD
What was the term for gladiator fights?
Munera gladiatoria
What was the term for the special food for the gladiators?
Sagina gladiatorial
What was the term for the wooden training sword given to gladiators when they retire?
Rudis
What was the term for the banks of rows?
Caveae
What was the term for the first five rows?
Infima / ima cavea
What was the term for the next twelve rows?
Media cavea
What was the term for the highest 18 rows?
Summa cavea
What was the term for the narrow passage for carrying the dead?
Porta Libitinensis
What was the term for the seat of honor for members of the city council?
Bisellia
What was the term for the two or three rows of parble thrones?
Podium
What was the term for the 14 rows for euestrians?
Maenianum 1
What was the term for the seating for ordinary citizens?
Maenianum 2
What was the term for the seating for the lower classes, foreigners, and slaves?
Maenianum 3
Who used the upper gallery above maenianum 3?
Women
What was the term for gladiators?
Gladiatorii
Which Gladiator fought with a net and trident?
Retiarius
Which Gladiator fought blindfolded?
Andabata
Which Gladiator had a fish crested helmet?
Murmillo
Which Gladiator fought in a chariot?
Essedarius
Which Gladiator fought with wild animals?
Bestiarius
Which Gladiator was a rookie?
Tiro
Which Gladiator fought with two daggers?
Dimachaerus
Which Gladiator fought with a lasso?
Loqueator
Which Gladiator fought as a volunteer?
Actoratus
Which Gladiator fought with a short shield and had greaves on both legs?
Thrax
Which Gladiator fought with thick sleeves on his right arm, had greaves on his left leg, and had a visored helmet?
Samnite
What was the term for a long sheild?
Scutum
Which gladiator was like the Samnites but more heavily armored and often pinned against the Thrax?
Hoplomachi
Which gladiator was like the Samnites but lightly armored, and often pinned against the retiarii?
Secutores
Who was the highest ranking gladiator, title meaning “first sword”?
Palus primus
Who was the second highest ranking gladiator, title meaning “second sword”?
Palus secundus
What was the term for a spared gladiator?
Missus
What was the term for a gladiator trainer?
Lanista
What was the term for the banquet for gladiators the day before a show?
Cena libera
What was the term for the sham combat with blunt weapons that began the show?
Prolusio
What was the white-chalked line that was the finish line in the Circus Maximus?
Calx
