Exams

Final exam preparation focuses on significant "ID" terms.

I. Early Rome (Livy……)

  • Phoenicians
  • rex ("king")
  • senate
  • comitia centuriata
  • familia
  • Latins, Latium
  • gens (pl. gentes)
  • pater familias
  • Sicily
  • Etruscans(Etrusci=Tusci="Rasenna")
  • The "7 Kings" (in Livy Book I)
  • Aeneas
  • Jupiter Optimus Maximus ("best & greatest")

II. The Roman Constitution

  • patricians/ plebeians (patricii/ plebs)
  • auspices
  • dictator
  • decemvirs
  • pontifex maximus, pontiffs
  • praetor
  • censor
  • Volsci
  • Veii
  • Gauls, Battle at the Allia River
  • Samnites, 3 Samnite Wars
  • imperium 
  • tribune of the Plebs
  • Plebeian Tribal Council (concilium plebis)
  • Tribunes Licinius & Sextius (367 B.C.)
  • consul
  • quaestor
  • aedile
  • Municipia
  • Latin League, Latin Allies
  • Tarentum
  • King Pyrrhus of Epirus

III. Roman Imperialism

  • Saguntum
  • First & Second Punic Wars
  • King Hiero of Syracuse
  • Hamilcar Barca
  • Battle of Zama (202 B.C.)
  • the Ptolemies
  • Rhodes
  • Philip V of Macedon
  • Second Macedonian War
  • Perseus
  • Third Macedonian War
  • Battle of Pydna (168 B.C.)
  • Hannibal
  • Mamertini
  • Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.)
  • P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
  • Sardinia
  • Pergamon
  • Fourth Macedonian War
  • Third Punic War
  • M. Porcius Cato the Elder
  • provincia, "province," provincials
  • L. Aemilius Paullus
  • Scipio Aemilianus
  • T. Quinctius Flamininus

IV. Age of the Gracchi, Sulla, Marius

  • equestrians, equites
  • Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
  • populares
  • Q. Metellus
  • Italian ("Social") War
  • latifundia
  • Mithridates
  • novus homo (a "new man": as Cato Sr., Marius, Cicero)
  • Jugurtha
  • M. Livius Drusus the Younger
  • Gaius Marius
  • Cimbri and Teutones
  • L. Cornelius Sulla
  • (Cornelius) Cinna
  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
  • optimates ("best men")
  • Battle of Arausio (105 B.C.)
  • nobiles (nobles, aristocrats)

V. The Consequences of Empire, & First Triumvirate

  • Catiline (L. Sergius Catilina)
  • Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  • Q. Sertorius
  • L. Lucullus
  • M. Licinius Crassus
  • G. Verres
  • First Triumvirate
  • Ariovistus
  • Stoicism
  • Eunous
  • M. Aemilius Lepidus
  • M. Porcius Cato the Younger
  • P. Clodius Pulcher
  • Spartacus
  • M. Tullius Cicero
  • Judaea
  • G. Julius Caesar
  • Vercingetorix, Siege of Alesia
  • Epicureans
  • freedman (libertus )

VI. Caesar's Downfall, & Second Triumvirate

  • Parthia
  • River Rubicon
  • Battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.)
  • Sextus Pompeius
  • G. Cassius, M. Junius Brutus
  • Ides of March, 44 B.C.
  • Battle of Philippi, 42 B.C.
  • Cleopatra
  • M. Vipsanius Agrippa
  • M. Antonius (Mark Antony)
  • Battle of Munda (45 B.C.)
  • Second Triumvirate
  • Octavian (to become "Augustus")
  • Battle of Actium, 31 B.C.

VII. Augustus

  • Praetorian Guard
  • Armenia
  • Imperial Cult
  • Vergil
  • Livy (!)
  • "Augustus"
  • tribunicia potestas (tribunician power)
  • princeps, principate
  • Vigiles
  • Parthia
  • Horace
  • Tiberius (= Tiberius Claudius Nero)
  • M. Claudius Marcellus
  • Gaius and Lucius Caesar

VIII. The Julio-Claudians

  • TIBERIUS (= Tiberius Claudius Nero)
  • Germanicus
  • Sejanus
  • VESPASIAN
  • Agrippina the Younger
  • CLAUDIUS
  • Seneca the Younger
  • Great Fire of Rome (64 A.D.)
  • Jewish War (A.D. 66-70)
  • TITUS
  • GALBA
  • OTHO
  • VITELLIUS
  • GAIUS (= CALIGULA)
  • NERO
  • "Golden House"
  • Earliest Persecution of Christians
  • Vindex
  • DOMITIAN

IX. The Second Century A.D.

  • NERVA
  • HADRIAN
  • Dacia, Dacians
  • MARCUS AURELIUS
  • TRAJAN
  • ANTONINUS PIUS
  • Alimenta

X. The Rise of Christianity

The Pagan Background:

  • Bacchus, Bacchanalia
  • Cybele (Magna Mater)
  • Vestal Virgins
  • Lupercalia
  • Isis (& Osiris)

Early Christianity:

  • Jesus
  • Tertullian
  • St. Paul
  • Eusebius

XI. Third Century Crisis; Diocletian and Constantine; "Fall" (Transformation?) of the Roman Empire

  • Commodus
  • Septimius Severus
  • Macrinus
  • Severus Alexander
  • Odenathus & Zenobia
  • Curiales (Curial Class)
  • Diocletian
  • Constantine
  • "Edict of Milan," 313 A.D.
  • Constantinople
  • Valentinian I & Valens
  • Pertinax
  • Caracalla
  • Julia Domna
  • Gallienus
  • Goths
  • Tetrarchy
  • Donatus, Donatists
  • Julian the Apostate
  • Theodosius the Great
  • Elagabalus
  • Palmyra
  • Aurelian
  • Arian Heresy