Friebel: Roman Empire
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- Colesseum
- Roman sports arena
- Messiah
- Savior or liberator of a people or country (chosen by God)
- Julian emperors
- emperors descending from Julius Caesar, including Augustus, Tiberius, and three others.
- satire
- writing that mocks society for its foolishness and wickedness.
- Livy
- Historian who wrote a biased history of Rome sponsored by Augustus.
- Pax Romana
- 207 years of peace in Rome, from 27 B.C. - A.D. 180
- Zeno
- preacher of Universal Law, Divine Power, or Supreme Power. A Stoic.
- policy
- plan for governing
- villa
- country estate owned by wealthy city dwellers.
- Good Emperors
- Also known as the adoptive emperors, includes Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.
- Aeneid
- epic Roman poem modeled after Homer's masterpieces.
- martyr
- someone who sacrifices their life for the sake of a cause or belief
- Stoicism
- a philosophy of indifference to pleasure and pain, practiced specifically by the Spartans.
- Meditations
- A historical literary work by Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius.
- Epicurius
- creator of Epicureanism
- Virgil
- Writer of the epit poem Aeneid
- apostle
- special messengers of another's religious views.
- aqueduct
- long, bridgelike structures that carried water from nearby hills to centers of population
- disciple
- someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
- Augustus
- Rome's ablest emperor an excellent administrator, who began as a poor military leader but found his footing, leading his country into the Pax Romana.
- Tacitus
- historian who expressed his scorn for the government by writing pieces such as Annals, his major work.
- The Pantheon
- temple for the gods with a domed roof called a rotunda.
- civil service
- government employees, government workers
- Juvenal
- satirical writer during the silver age of writing.
- Epicureanism
- the philosophy that life should be lived by freeing the mind of fear and freeing the body from pain, and by avoiding all excesses. they should accept death as a natural part of life, and realize that there if no afterlife. this philosophy was warped and used by many people to justify ridiculous acts.
- pope
- the father, or head, of the Christian Church.
- bishop
- a church official who sets moral standards and supervises the finances of several local churches.