CLAS 2000 Exam 3 Study Guide Exam
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What is Horologium and for whom does Augustus say it was a gift? - Answer A sundial, a gift to
the sun god for restoring Egypt to the Roman Empire
What does the name Pantheon mean? - Answer All the gods
Is the Pantheon we see today really built by Marcus Agrippa as the inscription says? - Answer
No, it burned down twice; this one was designed by Apollodones of Damascus 150 years later
What surrounds Augustus's Temple on the Palatine? - Answer His house, a portico of Danaids,
and stone cows
To which god did Augustus build a temple on the Palatine joined to his house? - Answer Apollo
What does the Mausoleum of Augustus face? - Answer The Pantheon
What is imperial iconography? - Answer The way a ruler depicts his ideals, often through art,
buildings, and literature
What is the Ara Pacis and what does its symbolism suggest? - Answer The alter of Augustan
peace, that peace can be equated with religion and pietas
What has a recent paper suggested is the purpose of the caryatids from the Pantheon at
Hadrian's villa with Tivoli? - Answer They held up an annular (ring) vault in place of columns
Why might Augustus have wanted to decorate so many of his temple with Danaids or water-
carrying women holding up their garments who may be Danaids? - Answer A sort of
ubiquitous punishment of Cleopatra ad the rebellions soul of civil war passions
Where is the Mausoleum of Augustus and who is buried there? - Answer The Campus Martius;
Augustus, his family and descendants
, What was Seneca's role in the early reign of Nero? - Answer Tutor and advisor with authority
over domestic affairs
To whom were the empresses Messalina and Agrippina married? - Answer Claudius
what did Nero allegedly do to the Christians whom he blamed for starting The Great Fire? -
Answer Burned them as human torches to light the night
Who ordered Seneca's death and how did he die? - Answer Nero; implicated in the Pionsian
conspiracy; opened his veins, hemlock and hot bath
What did the Armenian King Tiridates do before Nero that no one had ever dared before? -
Answer He knelt and called him god
Which is NOT true of Nero's Domus Aurea? - Answer It was where Agrippina was assassinated
What accusations do Nero's corrupt advisors, after 62 AD, begin to make against Seneca? -
Answer That he dared to compete Nero with poetry and wealth
Who ordered the death of Nero's mother Agrippina? - Answer Nero
In his De Clementina (on Mercy), which does Seneca not show Nero? - Answer The savagery of
Atreus before his brother
In Seneca's Thyestes, what does Tantalus NOT say about being returned to the house of Atreus?
- Answer That he deserved to live in exile in the wild, away from riches and luxuries of the
palace, not to be the symbol of the house of Atreus
Which does NOT suggest that the play may be about Nero? - Answer Thyestes' son is named
Tantalus
What happens at the climax of the play when Atreus proclaims himself as god, higher than god?
- Answer Thyestes belches
And Actual Answers 2025\2026 Updated.
What is Horologium and for whom does Augustus say it was a gift? - Answer A sundial, a gift to
the sun god for restoring Egypt to the Roman Empire
What does the name Pantheon mean? - Answer All the gods
Is the Pantheon we see today really built by Marcus Agrippa as the inscription says? - Answer
No, it burned down twice; this one was designed by Apollodones of Damascus 150 years later
What surrounds Augustus's Temple on the Palatine? - Answer His house, a portico of Danaids,
and stone cows
To which god did Augustus build a temple on the Palatine joined to his house? - Answer Apollo
What does the Mausoleum of Augustus face? - Answer The Pantheon
What is imperial iconography? - Answer The way a ruler depicts his ideals, often through art,
buildings, and literature
What is the Ara Pacis and what does its symbolism suggest? - Answer The alter of Augustan
peace, that peace can be equated with religion and pietas
What has a recent paper suggested is the purpose of the caryatids from the Pantheon at
Hadrian's villa with Tivoli? - Answer They held up an annular (ring) vault in place of columns
Why might Augustus have wanted to decorate so many of his temple with Danaids or water-
carrying women holding up their garments who may be Danaids? - Answer A sort of
ubiquitous punishment of Cleopatra ad the rebellions soul of civil war passions
Where is the Mausoleum of Augustus and who is buried there? - Answer The Campus Martius;
Augustus, his family and descendants
, What was Seneca's role in the early reign of Nero? - Answer Tutor and advisor with authority
over domestic affairs
To whom were the empresses Messalina and Agrippina married? - Answer Claudius
what did Nero allegedly do to the Christians whom he blamed for starting The Great Fire? -
Answer Burned them as human torches to light the night
Who ordered Seneca's death and how did he die? - Answer Nero; implicated in the Pionsian
conspiracy; opened his veins, hemlock and hot bath
What did the Armenian King Tiridates do before Nero that no one had ever dared before? -
Answer He knelt and called him god
Which is NOT true of Nero's Domus Aurea? - Answer It was where Agrippina was assassinated
What accusations do Nero's corrupt advisors, after 62 AD, begin to make against Seneca? -
Answer That he dared to compete Nero with poetry and wealth
Who ordered the death of Nero's mother Agrippina? - Answer Nero
In his De Clementina (on Mercy), which does Seneca not show Nero? - Answer The savagery of
Atreus before his brother
In Seneca's Thyestes, what does Tantalus NOT say about being returned to the house of Atreus?
- Answer That he deserved to live in exile in the wild, away from riches and luxuries of the
palace, not to be the symbol of the house of Atreus
Which does NOT suggest that the play may be about Nero? - Answer Thyestes' son is named
Tantalus
What happens at the climax of the play when Atreus proclaims himself as god, higher than god?
- Answer Thyestes belches
