Humanities I Test 3

The dominate Male in the Roman families whose powers over his wife and children were supposedly unlimited, though they were sometimes circumvented in practice

An epic by Virgil about the hero Aeneas and the founding of Rome Agamemnon Greek king and commander of Greek forces in the Trojan War

Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars

A water supply/channel constructed to bring water to crops

Troops enlisted from the subject peoples of the Roman empire to supplement the regular legions

conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy

Emperor after Tiberius

Whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny;

was assassinated

An ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis

A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose

regarded as a model of simple virtue

A chariot race

queen of Egypt

Free tenant farmers who worked as sharecroppers on the large estates of the Roman Empire

a large amphitheater

highest civil and military magistrates

Peninsula

• A group of wealthy men who worked in the late Roman Republic who were effectively barred from high office but sought political power commensurate with their wealth
• Named: many gotten start from cavalry officers

a Jewish religious group that flourished

a native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria

a dynasty of seven consecutive Roman Emperors, who ruled over the Roman Empire

Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, and Commodus

• Five Good Emperors,
• son of trajan

general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War… defeated

poet said to have influenced English poery

queen of the Olympian gods who protected marriage

Large Land Estates in the Roman Empire

historian who linked empire to traditions of republican past

• Five Good Emperors nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius
• Roman emperor

is the title of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.

A narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world

Goddess of Wisdom

Ancient Persian god of light and truth; sun god

Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury

• emperor
• defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium

Temple to all the gods

The dominate Male in the Roman families

the Apostle Paul

“Roman Peace”

a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions

a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.

Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered

“favoring the people”

The Military guard that served as the personal body guard to the roman empire.

“first citizen”

a member of an ancient Jewish sect around the time of Jesus; opposed to the Pharisees

Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama

a war waged from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of the other cities in Italy, which prior to the war had been Roman allies for centuries

a Roman general and politician, having the rare distinction of holding the office of consul twice as well as the dictatorship