Test 3 list/id questions Flashcards
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Aediles
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- Supervised markets and baths, prosecution of crimes before assemblies
- Acting police force of the Republic
- Put on public games, ensuring repair of roads and public buildings
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Tresviri capitales
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- Board of three minor magistrates
- Supervision of the city’s prisons, overseeing rounding up of thieves and slaves
- Exercised criminal jurisdiction over low-status citizens and slaves
3
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Vigiles
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- Under emperor Augustus
- Protect cities against fires and fought crime
- 3500 men
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Praetorian guard
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- Military force under Emperor Augustus
- Force of 1500 men up to as many as 10000
- Role in policing petty crime stationed at public spectacles
5
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Stationarii
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- Post-holders
- Repressed bridgandage assigned to posts along the Italian roadways
- Secured publicly owned enterprises such as mines, quarries
- One of the few career options for an escaped slave
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R. Gabriel’s 6 optium conditions for successful healing of soldiers
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- trained core of medical doctors
- support staff to assist doctors
- removal of wounded
- field hospitals
- continued care and veteran hospitals
- tradition of practices and institutions
7
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factors contributing to soldiers health
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- fitness
- food and water
- hygiene
- heatstroke/exhaustion
- disease resistance
8
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staff on/off field
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- field medics for immediate treatment
- medicus highest ranked physician
- medicus ordinaries all round doctor and specialist
9
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Typical elements of homes
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- rectangular with few windows
- entrance into a vestibule or a fauces
- courtyard central to house and rooms clustered around
- shrines at entrance and throughout
- triclinium (small dining room)
10
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Dirce
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- Jupiter seduces Antiope
- Antiope flees fearful of her father
- Father kills himself and asks his brother to seek revenge
- Lycus brings Antiope back to Thebes and she becomes Dirce slave
- Antiope’s sons free their mother and vengeance on Dirce
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Pentheus
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- Prince of thebes
- against the worship of bacchus
- theban women leave thebes to worship bacchus
- bacchus leads Pentheus into spying on him
- women possessed and kill Pentheus
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Ixion
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- First murderer, exiled for killing his father-in-law
- Jupiter takes him to Mt. Olympus to purify him
- Ixion tries to rape Juno
- His sperm and Juno cloud make the first centaur
- Mercury takes him to the underworld and he is trapped in a wheel that spins eternally
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Adriadne
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- Betrays fathers to help Theseus defeat the Minotaur
- He promises to marry her and take her back to Athens
- Abandons her on an island
- Bacchus finds her and falls in love with her
14
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Pasiphae
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- Mino’s wife
- Mino’s given a bull from the gods and does not sacrifice it back
- Neptune makes Pashiphae lust after the bull
- She gets Daedalus to make her a hollow cow so she can screw the bull
- Pasiphae gives birth to the Minotaur
