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Roman Quiz

Humanities Roman Test

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Non-Citizens
No voting power, 3rd class
Dome Arch
spun 360 degrees, Pantheon
2 types of Christian Buildings
Basilica, Control Plan
Plebians
2nd class
Terence
6 plays, influence by Menander, slow complex structure, aristocratice, dual story
Lucretius
wrote about psychology of music
Groin Vault
2 barrels crossed
Domitian
wrote about leaders Ceasers- death of Nero
Aqueduct
carries water long distances
MIlitary
Brass Instruments, Cavalry charge/retreat
Pliny
Nieve no filter for info gave us misconceptions
Punic War
Rome vs. Carthage
Perspective
3D on 2D surface
Ara Pacis
Augustus Caeser during pax Romana Propaganda piece
Poseidon
Neptune
Accius
Most Prolific, love of moral courage herois, violent even ghoulish
Hera
Juno
Roman Architecture contributions
Arch and Concrete
Musical theory
not re-inventive, liberal arts apart of education
Roman Music
Entertaining the Hordes
Ennius
influence by Euripedes, innovation with meter and language
SPQR
The Roman Senate and People
Paccuvius
Nephew to Ennius, painter, scholar, sentimental philosophy
Assemblies
10 tribunes, similar to House of Reps, veto Senate Actions
Pallas Athena
Minerva
Quinticus
best female characters
Sextus JUlius
wrote about engineering, roman aqueducts
Pantomime
interpret dance with script, silent performers accompanied by actors
3 parts of Roman Republic
Senate, Assemblies, Magistrates
Narrative Relief sculpture
about how great leaders were
Romelous and Reemus
nursed by wolves, raised by shepherds
Baths of Caracella
Baths central to life, daily, after work, networking, hygiene religous functions
1st Punic War
Rome wins, Island of Sicily
Roman Drama
imitative, inspired from Greeks
Marcus Varro
daily job writer
Lucius Apoleius
science fictions, men into animals, man on the moon
Mime
most popular during empire, spoken lines, raunchy conflicts with christian church
Eros
Cupid
Seneca
most important writer during empire, wrote for private, social elites, eliminated minor characters, less of greek theory
Lucretius
long poem of epicurian philosphy
w/o Roman imitators
we would be ignorant of Greek accomplishment
Aphrodite
Venus
Cornelius Tactitus
ROme in moral decay
Zeus
Jupiter
Virgil
Anead, cultural epic
Senate
noble families that control spending and foreign policy
Secular
highly trained, Tibia Players, greek aulos, Dance and Mime
Hades
Pluto
Fresco
painting on plaster
Magistrates
public officials, 2 councils were highest single leaders that veto each other
Martial
Satirical derogative writings
Etruscans
1st to migrate on area of ROme
Boethus
created 1st encyclopedia, music methodology
Pompenius Vuela
1st to divide earth into 5 zones
Trompe L'oeil
FOOL THE EYE
St. Jerome
translates bible into Latin
Fabula Togata
family relationships, invented by Titinius
Triumphal Arches
Commemorate heroes
Pan
Faunus
Fabula Atellan
comedy, cunning, stock characters
Artemis
Diana
Tessera
mosaic with stone or glass
Livy
Long history of rome
Music Influences
Etruscans, Greeks, Orient, British,Isles
Ares
Mars, strong war god
Catulus
passionate love poems
Patricians
Aristocratic powerful ppl
Seutonius
sex, national enquierer
Concrete
lime, ash, sand/stone
Afranius
Most important comedy writer borrowed Menander
Portrait Sculpture
Death masks, old realistic, etruscan, Unknown Roman
Fabula Praetexta
HIstory, unpleasant topics
Plutarch
look how much rome has accomplished
Humanities
sucks
3rd Punic War
Carthage destroyed, razed, salt poured so crops will never grow
Plautus
wrote a lot, artistic whole unachieved, puns, street latin, backchat slapstick
Tibre River
Water Source
Hydraullis
1st organ, alexandria engineer, amphitheaters
Pompeii and Herculanean
Towns on Italian Peninsula both destroyed and Preserved by Vesuvius in 79 AD
Liturgical
Isis, Cybele, Dionysus, Judaism, Christians all use harps for musical celebration
Phoebus Apollo
Apollo
Quitillian
educational techniques
Hermes
Mercury
Ovid
Metamorphisis-retelling of greek myths
Basilica
used for governmental function, law court
2nd Punic War
Hannibal marches elephants across the Alps, takes over Spain
Fabula Palliata
comedy in greek dress
Juvenal
savage satire
Arcade
arches side by side
Hephaestus
Vulcan
Longitudinal
greek cross plan, all arms equal
Roman Instruments
stringed, lyre, brass and percussion
Cicero
orator, philosopher
Hestia
Vesta
Cronus
Saturn-promotio
Gnaeus Naevius
based on greeks, roman flavor, fabula Praetexta, exiled
Luidis Scenici
competiton between dramas
Demeter
Ceres
Modeling
value shading to simulate 3D
Dionyssus
Bacchus

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