Augustus
The Latin name for the time of peace under Augustus
What is the Pax Romana?
What is a semi-colon?
He was Nero's tutor
What is Seneca?
The first part of a six parts essay
What is the exordium?
He succeeded Nero as emperor
Who is Galba?
A story of someone's life written by that person himself or herself
What is an autobiography?
The two types of examples you need in a chreia
What are negatives and positive?
It makes the people love you, it demonstrates your power, it makes the people feel worse when they do wrong, and it hides from the people how many bad men are among them.
What are reasons a ruler should show mercy?
The E in TS(E)AR
What is explanation?
After Galba, they fought over who would be the ruler of Rome and leader of the Roman army
Who are Otho and Vitellius?
The name of the line of rulers Augustus was part of
What is the Julio-Claudian Dynasty?
You cannot use this to connect two independent clauses
What is a comma?
Seneca praised this virtue
What is clemency (or mercy)?
The part of an essay where you address and challenge objections to your argument
What is the refutatio?
He was a Roman praetor and wrote a history of Rome
Who is Tacitus?
These were closed when Rome was at peace
What are the doors to the Temple of Janus?
The FANBOYS
What are for, and, nor, but, or yet, so?
Nero blamed them for the Great Fire of Rome in 64AD
Who were Christians?
The last sentence of your TSAR paragraph
What is the restatement?
The last of the four emperors of 69 AD, he reigned for ten years and passed the throne to his sons
Who is Vespasian?
The three themes that Augustus organized his autobiography around
What are honors and offices, philanthropy, wars and foreign policy
The purpose of a chreia
What is to praise the wisdom of a saying and its author?
He may have murdered Tiberius and he promised to appoint his favorite horse as consul
Who is Caligula?
Where you put your thesis in a six parts essay
What is the divisio?
The secret of empire revealed after Nero's death, according to Tacitus
What is that emperors could be made elsewhere than at Rome?