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71 Cards in this Set
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Canae |
Hannibal and Army of Carthage v. Roman Republic Hannibal won 216 BC |
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Zama |
202 BC Hannibal v. Scipio Africanus Scipio won |
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Pharsalus |
48 BC Julius Caesar v. Pompey Pompey defeated |
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Philippi |
Battle between Antony and Octavian, and Brutus and Cassius Brutus and Cassius surrender 42 BC |
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Seneca |
Stoic philosopher Tragic playwright |
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Sallust |
Roman historian Influenced Thucydides |
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Nepos |
Biographer Complete writings lost |
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Mycenas |
Friend of Augustus Patron of Horace and Virgil |
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Cornelius Gallus |
A poet Wrote love elegy |
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Lucilius |
Early Satirist Predecessor of Horace and Juvenal |
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Horace |
Roman lyric poet during reign on Augustus Odes, Epistles, Epodes |
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Tacitus |
Senator Wrote Histories and Annals Live in early Roman empire |
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Caecilia Metella |
2nd largest tomb to Augustus' |
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Res Gestae Divi Augustus |
autobiography of Augustus first person account |
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Actium |
Naval Battle on coast of Greece Agrippa defeats Antony and Cleopatra 31 BC |
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Sextus Pompeius |
Roman general Son of Pompey |
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Cleopatra |
Queen of Egypt Affair with Antony |
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Livia |
Augustus' wife Mother of Tiberius and Nero Portraiture is youthful like Augustus' |
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Agrippina, the elder |
Wife of Germanicus Model of a good wife |
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Agrippina, the younger |
Wife of Nero and Claudius Daughter of Agrippina and Germanicus |
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Germanicus |
Son of Nero Drusus Heir to Tiberius Married to Agrippina |
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Nero Drusus |
Germanicus' father Roman military commander and politician |
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Sejanus |
Tiberius' right hand man Murdered Drusus Had affair with Livilia, Drusus' wife |
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Potestas |
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Imperium |
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Auctoritas |
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Strabo |
geographer for building program under Augustus |
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Prima Porta |
A "type" of Augustus portrait youthful face, haircut, classicizing Elements of older portraiture |
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Eumachia |
building in Pompeii Designed by priestess Eumachia "Concordiae Augustae" on the side |
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Temple of Castor and Pollux |
Made of Carrara marble, not local stone References imperial Athenian temple |
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Maison Carree |
Modelled after Augustus's Temple of Actian Apollo Exempla of Augustus not policed by Augustus |
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First Style Wall Painting |
2nd century BC-80AD Imitates marble |
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Second Style Wall Painting |
80BC Architectural landscapes |
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Third Style Wall Painting |
20BC Broad color zones Architectural decoration, small picture Radical rejection of tradition, comfortable with being decoration |
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Fourth Style Wall Painting |
50AD Mix of second and third style |
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Tiberius |
successor of Augustus Portraiture mirrors Augustus Unpopular despite being experienced and capable Julio Claudian |
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Virgil |
Roman poet Aeneid, Georgics, Eclogues |
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Georgics
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Written by Virgil Agricultural themes |
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Propertius |
Latin elegaic poet Mythological allusionObscure, difficult to read |
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Tibullus |
Elegaic poet rural ideal |
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Sulpicia |
Elegaic poet reverses male-female elegiac conventions |
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Ovid |
later poet Ars Armatoria, Metamorphosis, Fasti, Tristia and Epistulae Ponto exhiled to Danube |
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Annals |
From death of Augustus to Nero Covers Julio-Claudians Analytical history Tacitus |
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Caligula |
Perceived of as crazy Blood tie to Augustus Murdered by praetorian Julio Claudian |
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Claudius |
Disabled Portraiture resembled Augustus in that the ears took out 40 year long reign Julio Claudian |
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Nero |
Theatre emperor Portraiture more like Marc Antony, thick neck, beard popular with urban poor, big spender Julio Claudian |
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Year of Four Emperors |
Galba, Otho, Vitellus, Vespasian End of Julio Claudian dynasty Start of Flavian |
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The Flavian Dynasty |
Vespasian, Titus, Domitian Not from Rome Caesar and Augustus titles |
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Vespasian |
Emphasized personal thrift Father of Titus and Domitian Began colosseum Portraiture shows verism, marks of aging |
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Titus |
Son of Vespasian Portraits look like V Unpopular Short reign: 79-81 |
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Domitian |
Suspicious, autocratic Murdered Portrait a mixture of Julio Claudian and Flavian |
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Julio-Claudian Portraiture |
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Flavian Portraiture |
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The Five Good Emperors |
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, M. Aurelius Succession by adoption 96-180 AD |
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Nerva |
adopted Trajan Portraiture aging and thin Smooth transition of power |
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Trajan |
Spanish, first non Italian emperor, began international aristocracy Empire reached farthest extent Portraits frozen, like Augustus, but at maturity |
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Hadrian |
Travelled a lot outside Rome Intellectual Hadrian wall Portraits frozen at maturity, beard Antinuous |
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Antoninus Pius |
Reign is peaceful and prosperous Portraits strongly resemble Hadrian, beard |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Portraits age, resemble Hadrian, beard Stoic "philosopher king" |
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Antonine Dynasty
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Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus Pius, Commodus |
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Commodus |
Macho portraiture (posed as Herakles) Reign traditionally the start of the middle empire |
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Early Empire |
31BC-180AD |
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Middle Empire |
180-284AD |
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Middle Empire Portraiture |
Caracalla, Tacitus |
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Caracalla |
Middle Empire Portraiture tough, formidable, soldier |
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Tacitus |
Middle Empire emperor More abstracted features, drill use |
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Aelius Aristides |
Greek rhetorician highly idealistic view of Roman empire |
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Philotimia |
desire for honor/status Inspired euergetism |
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Euergetism |
private expenditure of local aristocrats for public good motivated by philotimia |
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Agricola |
Roman stateman Sponsored a lot of public buildings in Roman style Written about by Tacitus |
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Julio Claudian Emperors |
Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius Nero |
