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Week 9 Flashcards

1
Q

What were the 3 duties of the materfamilias?

A
  • Bearing legitimate children
  • Raising children
  • Managing the household
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2
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What were the 3 layers of women’s clothing?

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  • Tunic
  • Stola
  • Palla
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3
Q

Which article of women’s clothing denoted their married status?

A

Stola

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4
Q

What was the ideal complexion for women?

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Very pale

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5
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What did women use for makeup

A

White lead, and rouge

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6
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What was the highest position a woman could achieve in society?

A

Priestess

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7
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What were the Vestal Virgins?

A

Priestesses of Vesta

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8
Q

Who was the goddess of the hearth?

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Vesta

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9
Q

How many years did Vestal Virgins devote to their priesthood?

A

30 years

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10
Q

At what age did Vestal Virgins begin their practice?

A

6

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11
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What was the punishment for a Vestal Virgin caught sleeping with a man?

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Live entombment to death

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12
Q

True or False:

Vestal Virgins were so highly regarded in Roman society, they even had lictors.

A

TRUE

Vestal Virgins did indeed have their own lictors.

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13
Q

In what temple was the eternal flame of Rome held?

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The Temple of Vesta

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14
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EXAM:
What were the 5 points of progress for women?

A
  • Mobility and Integration (weren’t confined to the household)
  • Unofficial political voice
  • Marital independence
  • Sexual liberation
  • Education and Intellectual emancipation
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15
Q

Women could divorce by the period of the _________

A

Principate

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16
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_________ women were known for their rights and freedoms.

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Etruscan

(They could sit on the same couch as their husbands, and had their own names)

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17
Q

True or False:

Etruscan women took on their mother’s name

A

TRUE!

Etruscan women were very progressive.

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18
Q

EXAM:
What were the 6 main leisure activities for all Romans?

A
  • Eating
  • Drinking
  • Sex
  • Gambling/Gaming
  • Athletics
  • Bathing (Recreational bathing)
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19
Q

What were the 3 main UPPER CLASS leisure activities?

A
  • Reciting Poetry (recitations)
  • Hunting
  • Travelling
20
Q

True or False:

The Romans banned gambling on games of chance, BUT, gambling was still legal for Athletics.

A

TRUE!

21
Q

What did children often play with

A

Nuts

22
Q

What were often used as dice?

A

Knucklebones

23
Q

What was a super popular gambling game using Kucklebones?

A

Throw of Venus

24
Q

True or False:

The Romans had Dice identical to those today

A

TRUE!

25
Q

What did the Romans invent to make each dice roll have fair odds?

A

The Dice Tower

26
Q

What was an intellectual game popular amongst the upper classes?

A

Wargames (aka “Little Soldiers”)

(seen as an intellectual game similar to chess)

27
Q

What did the Romans put inside boxing gloves?

A

Lead

28
Q

True or False:

Romans performed athletics naked like the Greeks did.

A

True

29
Q

What was the public exercising space in Rome?

A

Campus Martius

30
Q

What was a popular picnic spot for Romans?

A

Camput Martius

31
Q

True or False

The Romans always bathed communally

A

False:

Not always. It wasn’t until the Empire when all could bathe communaly.

32
Q

Bathing was segregated by gender during the ___________

A

Middle Republic

33
Q

How many bathhouses were in Rome?

A

1000

34
Q

True or False:

Even wealthy Romans, who could afford private baths, chose to go to public bathhouses.

A

TRUE

35
Q

What was the name of the public bath complex in Pompeii?

A

The Stabian Baths

(had different heating temperatures for each room)

36
Q

What was Rome’s largest bathhouse?

A

The Baths of Diocletian

37
Q

EXAM:

What were the 5 stages of a bathhouse visit?

A
  • Change in dressing room
  • Exercise
  • Sweat in Saunas
  • Scrape of dirt and sweat
  • Bathe in various pools
38
Q

True or False:

Bathing was the main activity of the bathhouse

A

FALSE

It was the culmination of numerous bathhouse activities.

39
Q

What was the dressing room called at a bathhouse?

A

Apodyterium

40
Q

What were the 3 types of saunas?

A
  1. Frigidarum
  2. Tepidarium
  3. Caldarium
41
Q

What was the Hypocaust?

A

The Sauna’s heating system

(translates into “heat underneath”)
(Fires outside the wall that would draft hot air into the house below the floors)

42
Q

How did most upper class Romans show off their education?

A

Recitations

(Reading poetry to your guests at a dinner party)

43
Q

Where do we get our word, “Paradise”

A

“Paradise” was the name for a Persian king’s artificial leisure hunting ground.

44
Q

What was the name of the first major Military road?

A

Via Appia

45
Q

At its height, Rome had __________km of roads.

A

80 000 km

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