QUIZ #6 "Rome: Urban Life & Imperial Majesty"

The origins of Roman culture are two fold. On one hand there's the Greeks who settled Sicily and the southern Italian peninsula south of Naples. Then, there's the ____________ from the area north of Rome, around current day Tuscany.

Etruscans

The Roman architect Vitruvius noted the adaptation of the Greek orders among the local early pre-Roman culture and called their style the Tuscan order, which best or most resembled which of the Greek orders?

Doric order

One of the competing foundational myths of ancient Rome included the story of abandoned twin infants who feuded over who would rule the city ending with one killing the other. Name those two twin brothers.

Remus and Romulus

The other competing foundation myth was the Aeneid, an epic poem that returned to the story of burning Troy and the Trojan horse. It mirrored its Greek literary predecessor with the early journey of Aeneas being like the Odyssey and the war in the second half being like the Iliad. Name the Roman poet who writes this epic poem and second Roman foundation myth.

Virgil

Name the term used to define the land owning aristocrats in ancient Roman society, who composed the Senate exclusively, and who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges.

patricians

Name the term used to define the poorer, working class in ancient Roman society, who composed the other legislative brank, and who served as craftspeople, merchants, and laborers.

plebians

The term "pater patriae" was adapted by Octavian Caesar as he saw himself as

"father of the fatherland"

Name the wars between ancient Rome and the Phoenician-state of Carthage in present-day Tunisia that allowed Rome to dominate the entire Mediterranean.

Punic Wars

Name the Carthaginian general who handed Rome its greatest defeat after crossing the Alps with 100,000 men and war elephants.

Hannibal

Which of the following leaders was NOT a member of the First Triumvirate.

Mark Anthony

Which of the following leaders was NOT a member of the Second Triumvirate.

Marcus Crassus

Name the famous writer, speaker, orator, one of the most powerful figures of pre-Augustan Rome, who had his head severed and then presented to a member of the Second Triumvirate for calling him a "tyrant" in his speeches.

Cicero

Name the major art form of the first and second centuries that seemed to dominate Roman sculptural art and that epitomized conservative politics with their affinity for naturalistic representation.

portrait busts

When Octavian took the name Augustus, he was portrayed as a near deity and in an idealized style. The term "Augustus" itself meant ___________________.

"the revered one"

Which of the following Roman poets was the most influential poet in Rome before the Augustan age?

Catullus

Which of the following structures can be considered "the most complete artistic statement of Rome's military character"?

Column of Trajan

Name the Roman building topped by a dome over a cylindrical space that is the largest dome built before the 20th century.

Pantheon

Who was the last of the Five Good Emperors?

Marcus Aurelius

Name the Roman Emperor who issued the Edict of Milan in 313 CE, which granted freedom to all, ending religious persecution in the Empire. He also converted to Christianity later and summoned the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE.

Constantine