What innovations did Augustus make for security and safety in Rome? - Answers -oversaw all
governors
-controlled money of empire and had private funds
-controlled army personally..he paid them
Be ready to
identify maiestas, delatores, curiales, cursus publicus, Res Gestae, urban cohorts,
vigiles, prefect of the city. - Answers Maiestas: republican law; illegal to diminish the majesty of
the people..adapted to protect emperor
-Delatores: "informers"/received 4th of wealth of those whom they successfully prosecuted
-Curiales:leadin members of gentes of Rome..collected taxes n food for army
-Cursus publicus: Rapid communications allow Augustus to keep tabs on provinces
-"Things Done" Augustus' epitaph
What is the ―consumer‖ model of Rome, and what is
Ward's judgment of this model [pp. 279-280]? - Answers ................
What revolution occurred in the glass industry around 40 B.C.? - Answers ....................
What were the goals of Augustus' moral legislation, and what according to Ward diminished the
effectiveness of these laws? - Answers -To curb immorality and make babies
-The "right of three children" and two julias...excused from munera
How did Augustus
associate himself with the past in his forum, his arch, and the Ara Pacis? - Answers -Forum:
Sword of caesar and standards of crassus
-return of standards by parthians;list of consuls and of those who had triumphs
-ara pacis: (alter of peace)Greek antecedents adapted to express roman history and
ideals..Romulus n aeneas
What message do these structures convey about his regime and the Republic? - Answers -
respected the past???
,What boast did Augustus make about his building program? - Answers -Rome was an attractive
city worth of being a world captial
What was the preferred sculptural style in the Augustan period? - Answers Classical[idealized,
simplified] but with depth, movement, human touches
Ab Urbe Condita
-Author
-basics - Answers -Livy
-History of ancient Rome in latin..begun in 27-25 BC..covers time of Aeneas to augustus to
death of drusus
Ars Amatoria
-Author
-basics - Answers -Ovid
-2 AD; teaching basic gentlemanly male and female relationship skills and techs
Art of Poetry
-Author
-Basics - Answers ..................
Eclogues
-Author
-Basics - Answers -Virgil
-First of three major works Latin;..was taking from the Greek Bucolica
Georgics
-Author
-Basics - Answers -Virgil
-second major work..published 29...draws on many prior greek sources
Metamorphoses
-Author
-Basics - Answers -Ovid
, -his "magnum opus"/great work;chronicles the history of the world form its creation to the
deification of Julius Ceasar
Odes
-Author
-Basics - Answers -Horace
-race and rhythm unsurpassed
Sermones
-Author
-Basics - Answers -Horace
-collection of satirical poems..published 35 B.C. to 33. B.C.
Who was Sulpicia? - Answers -A roman woman writer who wrote elegies in latin that have been
attributed to Tibullus
Which of the Augustan authors fought on the republican side at Philippi? Which of them was
banished by Augustus? - Answers ..............
Who was the
patron of Vergil and Horace? - Answers Gaius Maecenas
What does Ward write about the relationship of this patron and Augustus with the poets in their
circle and the writings of these poets [p.
290]? - Answers -he was Octavian's advisor and a strong patron and benefactor for the new
generation of poets
-horace's first poem addresses his patron
What are the main problems of our sources for this time (Julio-Claudians)? - Answers -Neither
biography nor history were scholarly..they were stories
-reliance on biased senatorial sources
-Authors could be biased by personal experience: Tacitus
List the dates of the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors. - Answers Tiberius: 14-37
Gaius(Caligula): 37-41
Claudius: 41-54