Rome ch3

Rome was built on a hilly site known as the seven hills on the east bank of the Tiber river.

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

The term plebeians refers to the poorer class who were 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

Imagines refers to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts

Pietas refers to the “dustifulness”, a relationship that prescribed that a family and clients equally owned “total obedience” to their parents in ancient Rome

Virgil is the author of Aeneid

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

Augustus did not view the writings of Ovid favorably thus permanently banishing hin from Rome

Ovid is the author of the Metamorphoses

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

Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the tuscan order, the ionic order on the second, and the Corinthian on the third which was favored by the Romans.

The Pantheon contained an oculus, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the “Eye of Jupiter.”