Test 2 Flash Cards
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- He was a great Roman orator, who ultimately gave his life for his beliefs
- Cicero
- Roman writers and artists borrowed most from what whom?
- Greeks
- The Silver Age produced Rome's greatest historian. His name?
- Tacitus
- Who wrote the Aeneid?
- Vergil
- In the Aeneid, the gods instruct Aeneas to found what city
- Rome
- The oldest copies of the Jewish scriptures are what?
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- "Matthew" in the Bible is a source for whose life?
- Jesus
- She is turned into a tree to save her from a god. Who is the girl, and who is the god?
- Daphne and Apollo
- He goes into the Underworld to consult his father.
- Aeneas
- She leads the above character into the Underworld.
- Sibyl
- How does the message in your excerpt from "Ecclesiastes" relate to the message in Gilgamesh?
- They both say that humans are destined to die
- He took the Christian gospel to the gentiles.
- Paul
- He translated the Bible into Latin.
- Jerome
- His writings cast women as temptresses and influenced their lack of power in the Church.
- Boethius
- He wrote The City of God.
- Augustine
- In the above book, what two cities does he describe?
- City of God and City of Man
- He wrote The History of the Church.
- Eusebius
- Your excerpt tells of the martyrdom of what two people?
- Peter and Paul
- What emperor stopped the persecution?
- Diacletian
- According to Islam, there is one what? Name? Who is his prophet?
- God, Allah, Muhammad
- She wrote The Alexiad.
- Anna Comnena
- In what century did she live?
- 11/12 Century
- Who is the subject of her history?
- Alexius
- Boethius claims that happiness equals what?
- Happiness to Good to God
- He was a Roman emperor who followed the stoic philosophy and wrote his "Meditations."
- Marcus Aurelius
- Einhard wrote a history of what ruler?
- Charlemagne