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What were the 3 duties of the materfamilias?

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  • Bearing legitimate children
  • Raising children
  • Managing the household
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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
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Which article of women’s clothing denoted their married status?

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Stola

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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

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White lead, and rouge

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

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Priestess

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What were the Vestal Virgins?

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Priestesses of Vesta

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8
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Who was the goddess of the hearth?

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Vesta

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9
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How many years did Vestal Virgins devote to their priesthood?

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30 years

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10
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At what age did Vestal Virgins begin their practice?

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6

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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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True or False:

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

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TRUE

Vestal Virgins did indeed have their own lictors.

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13
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In what temple was the eternal flame of Rome held?

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The Temple of Vesta

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

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  • 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
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Women could divorce by the period of the _________

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Principate

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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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True or False:

Etruscan women took on their mother’s name

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TRUE!

Etruscan women were very progressive.

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

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  • Eating
  • Drinking
  • Sex
  • Gambling/Gaming
  • Athletics
  • Bathing (Recreational bathing)
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What were the 3 main UPPER CLASS leisure activities?

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  • Reciting Poetry (recitations)
  • Hunting
  • Travelling
20
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True or False:

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

21
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What did children often play with

22
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What were often used as dice?

A

Knucklebones

23
Q

What was a super popular gambling game using Kucklebones?

A

Throw of Venus

24
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True or False:

The Romans had Dice identical to those today

25
What did the Romans invent to make each dice roll have fair odds?
The Dice Tower
26
What was an intellectual game popular amongst the upper classes?
Wargames (aka "Little Soldiers") (seen as an intellectual game similar to chess)
27
What did the Romans put inside boxing gloves?
Lead
28
True or False: Romans performed athletics naked like the Greeks did.
True
29
What was the public exercising space in Rome?
Campus Martius
30
What was a popular picnic spot for Romans?
Camput Martius
31
True or False The Romans always bathed communally
False: Not always. It wasn't until the Empire when all could bathe communaly.
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Bathing was segregated by gender during the ___________
Middle Republic
33
How many bathhouses were in Rome?
1000
34
True or False: Even wealthy Romans, who could afford private baths, chose to go to public bathhouses.
TRUE
35
What was the name of the public bath complex in Pompeii?
The Stabian Baths (had different heating temperatures for each room)
36
What was Rome's largest bathhouse?
The Baths of Diocletian
37
EXAM: What were the 5 stages of a bathhouse visit?
- Change in dressing room - Exercise - Sweat in Saunas - Scrape of dirt and sweat - Bathe in various pools
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True or False: Bathing was the main activity of the bathhouse
FALSE It was the culmination of numerous bathhouse activities.
39
What was the dressing room called at a bathhouse?
Apodyterium
40
What were the 3 types of saunas?
1. Frigidarum 2. Tepidarium 3. Caldarium
41
What was the Hypocaust?
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
How did most upper class Romans show off their education?
Recitations (Reading poetry to your guests at a dinner party)
43
Where do we get our word, "Paradise"
"Paradise" was the name for a Persian king's artificial leisure hunting ground.
44
What was the name of the first major Military road?
Via Appia
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At its height, Rome had __________km of roads.
80 000 km

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