Humanities- Rome Assessment

Seven Hills, Tiber River

Rome was built on a hilly site known as the ________ near the ________.

patricians

The term ______ refers to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome

Plebians

The term refers to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome

Marcus Junius Brutus

________ was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate

Cicero

_____ was the roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people

Virgil

_______ is the author of the Aeneid 

Georgics 

The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _______

Augustus

_______ did not view the writings of Ovid favorably, thus permanently banishing him from Rome

Ovid

_______ is the author of the Metamorphoses

arena

The sand that covered the floor of the Colosseum was known as the _____

order

Each level of the Colosseum used a different arcetectual ________

Tuscan Order

On the ground of the Colosseum:

ionic order

On the second floor of the Colosseum:

Corinthian

On the third level of the Colosseum (favored by the Romans):

oculus

he Pantheon contained an ______, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the “Eye of Jupiter”