Quiz 3 Roman Debate

Name given to Octavian

Augustus

Senatorial provinces

(senate controlled) Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Illyricum, Macedonia, Greece, Asia, Bithynia, Crete-Cyrene, and Africa

Imperial provinces

(augustus controlled) Spain, Gaul, Syria, and Egypt

Augustus’ daughter by his second wife; Scribonia

Julia

Augustus’ true love

Livia

Sons of Livia by a previous husband

Tiberius and Drusus

title received by Augustus after giving up consulship, tribunician power

Tribunica Potestas

where Augustus lost ground and Varsus and three roman legions were ambushed and massacred

Teutoburg Forest

second husband of Julia, he died

Agrippa

ideally he wanted a son to succeed him, he decided that the husband of his daughter Julia would succeed him, both her husbands died so he adopted Tiberius to be his successor

Augustus’ plan for succession

intended to affect actions or health of people or animals against
their will, by help of supernatural powers

curse tablets, defixiones

close friend and advisor of Augustus,

Gaius Maecenas

studied philosophy and poetry, was never in politics

Virgil

rivalry; borrowing lines/scenes from poets and doing it “better”

Aemulatio

son of Aphrodite/Venus, written by Virgil, national epic for Rome

Aenas

imperium without end

Imperium sine fine

his patron was Maecenas, wrote Carmen Seculare

Horace

prose writer, wrote a history of Rome

Livy

was banished over a poem and died in exile, wrote Metamorphoses

Ovid

mythological epic from the creation to Caesar’s downfall and Augustus’ reign

Metamorphoses

gave rewards to fathers of three or more children, and gave penalties to the unwed and childless

Leges Juliae

right of three children; freed woman from guardians, this eventually became a way to honor people who didn’t have 3 kids

Ius trium liberorum

Eldest son of Livia and Tiberius Nero

Tiberius

brother of Tiberius

Drusus

Tiberius nephew/adopted son, sent to handle mutiny

Germanicus

the charge of treason, included acts against princeps

Maiestas

an informer

Delator

head of the Praetorian guard, had hold over Tiberius

Sejanus