Rome Test Flashcards
Rome was built on a hilly site known as the seven hills on the east bank of what river?
Tiber River
What term refers to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome?
patricians
What term refers to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome?
plebians
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 the “dutifulness”, a relationship that prescribed that a family and clients equally owned “total obedience” to their parents in ancient Rome?
Pietas
In the sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta, who is pictured riding a dolphin?
Cupid
Virgil is the author of what?
Aeneid
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was what?
Georgics
Augustus did not view the writings of who favorably? Thus permanently banishing him from Rome.
Ovid
Ovid is the author of the what?
Metamorphoses
What that covered the floor of the Colosseum was know as the arena?
sand
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the ______ order, the _____ on the second, and the _________ on the third which was favored by the Romans.
Tuscan; Ionic; Corinthian
The Pantheon contained an ______, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the “______________”
oculus; Eye of Jupiter
