Early Rome
Names of twin boys nursed by a lupa
Romulus and Remus
Romans called the Mediterranean Sea
Mare Nostrum
He was the first emperor
Augustus
He wrote "Commentaries on the Gallic Wars"
Julius Caesar
Hegemony
dominance
the first king of Rome
Romulus
Romans called France
Gaul
He was the first bearded emperor
Hadrian
He wrote the "Aeneid"
Vergil
in media res
in the middle of the action
Year of the founding of rome
753 BC
Romans called Spain
Hispania
He was the last of the Julio-Claudians
Nero
This period initiated by Augustus's rule allowed for a flourishing of the arts
Pax Romana
augury
prophetic divining of the future/ birds, goat liver.
Name of the last king
Tarquinus Superus
Mountain range between Spain and France
pyrenees
he was named for his little sandals
Caligula
It displays a continuous, narrative, spiral frieze
Trajan's column
festina lente
make haste slowly
Laws inscribed in bronze
the Twelve Tables
Island wanted by Romans and Carthaginians
Sicily
The 5 "good" emperors
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
What Stoic masterpiece did Marcus Aurelius write
"Meditations"
Princeps
First citizen