Roman Influencers
The founder(s) of the city of Rome
Who are Romulus and Remus?
The proper name for the "Colosseum"
What is the Flavian Amphitheatre?
The Roman province responsible for mummy portraiture
What is Egypt (Aegyptus)?
The emperor who succeeded Augustus but spent the majority of his time outside of Rome on the island of Capri (cue little fishes)?
Who is Tiberius?
The Punic War where Hannibal took his army through the Alps (losing 3 dozen elephants in the process)
What is the Second Punic War?
The seventh and final king of Rome
Who is Tarquin the Proud (Tarquinius Superbus)?
The pretend purpose of Pompey's stone theatre
What is a temple (to Venus Vitrix)?
The name of the beloved mother Nero tried (many times) to kill
Who is Agrippina?
The emperor responsible for moral laws (Leges Juliae) aimed at promoting marriage and child-bearing (at the further expense of the agency of women)
The political office where you could supervise public morality (and thereby omit senators from their ranks if you deemed them "immoral")
What is a censor?
The individual who put on games twice for relatives long since dead
Who is Julius Caesar?
The two provinces mentioned in class largely responsible for supply Rome with grain under the empire
Where are North Africa and Spain? *I'll accept Egypt too
Instead of "Romanization" or "acculturation" models, this theory of cultural interaction is used in the study of the rock outcrops at Spain
What is the "invention of tradition"?
The emperor who was given his nickname for wearing his father Germanicus' miniature soldiers' boots around military camps as a boy (also the "crazy" one)
Who is Caligula?
The name of the final battle where Octavian defeated Antony and became the clear ruler of Rome
What is the Battle of Actium?
Cicero "saved Rome" from this person apparently
Who is Catiline?
The name of the huge marble map of ancient Rome created under Septimius Severus (of which only 10% survives to us)
What is the Severan Marble Plan (Forma Urbis)?
The name of the woman who erected buildings and other structures in Pompeii, exuding unusual influence in the city, in order to promote her son when he was running for political office
Who is Eumachia?
The philanthropic-emperor
Who is Nerva?
The two main generals in the Social War
Who are Marius and Sulla?
The brothers responsible for land reform following the Punic Wars
Who are the Gracchii brothers? *Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
The rock in Rome where people who had been convicted of crimes were thrown from the cliff's ledge down to the Forum below for committing crimes outlined in the Law of the Twelve Tables
What is the Tarpeian rock?
The inscriptions on the rock outcrops in Roman Spain mention these three groups of deities
Who are Isis and Serapis, Roman gods and goddesses, and the local gods of the Lapiteae?
The last emperor in the year of the five emperors
Who is Septimius Severus?
The name of the social revolution from 500-287 BCE where the Plebeians sought political equality and security
What is the Struggle of the Orders?