Identifies:

Imber's advice: Your answers should be relatively brief, but they should supply salient details. For persons: date, place of birth, public role/job (if any), writings and/or accomplishments and reason why this person is of interest to a student of Roman culture. For offices, magistracies or jobs: what was the jurisdiction of this job, what did the person who held it do, who was the typical holder of the job, why this job is of interest to a student of Roman culture. For events: when they happened, who were the participants, what was the issue and what was the resolution; why this event is of interest to a student of Roman culture.. For descriptive terms: rough translation, the idea or thing it describes; why this term is of interest to a student of Roman culture.

1. ad bestias	2. Aesculapius	3. fides
4. alae	5. Ara Pacis	6. Arria
7. atrium	8. Res Gestae	9. augury
10. The Affair of the Bacchanalia	11. Bestiarii	12. The Year of the Four Emperors
13. Agrippina the Younger	14. Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus	15. damnatio memoriae
16. tropeum	17. Marcus Tullius Cicero	18. Dacia
19. Historia Augusta	20. cognomen	21. compluvium
22. concilium	23. Constantine	24. Cult of the Emperor
25. cum manu marriage	26. procurator	27. prefect
28. Antinous	29. dominium	30. Pertinax
31. duoviri sacris faciundis	32. Edict of Milan	33. editores
34. epulum Iovis	35. familia	36. fetiales
37. familia rustica	38. fauces	39. imagines
40. fides	41. genius	42. infamis
43. flamines	44. Draw a floor plan of a typical Roman House which a member of the Roman elite during the late Republic might own	45. Julian the Apostate
46. Hercules Invectus	47. haruspices	48. impluvium
49. incubation	50. ius necandi	51. lex Ogulnia
52. lanistae	53. lex Julia de aduleteriis andlex Pappia Poppaea	54. Ludi Apollinares
55. Livia	56. Lucretia	57. Ludi Romani
58. Monstra	59. munera	60. murmillo
61. Mystery Cults	62. How did a freedman aquire a name? What would his/her name look like?	63.Consider the name Marcus Tullius Cicero. What is the praenomen, nomen and cognomen. What does each signify. What was Cicero's daughter's name? If he had a second daughter, what would her name be? What was Cicero's wife called?
64 .If a Roman man adopted the son of another Roman man, how might the change be reflected in the adopted son's name. Give an example	65.numen	66. oeci
67. patriapotestas	68. peculium	69.pontifex maximus
70. princeps	71. rex sacrorum	72. sine manu marriage
73. sui iuris	74. tablinum	75. templum
76. tabernae	77. Tiro	78.tutor
79. Venationes	80.vernae	81. vilici
82.	83.	84.
85.	86.	87.

Essay Questions:

Imber's advice: Supply background factual information (e.g., for question 1, below, be sure to explain what munera and ludi were); make reference to specific assigned readings and class discussions (e.g., for question 2, be sure to talk specifically about readings you did on Roman women - I know you won't be able to remember all the details, but I expect your essays to show that you've read and thought about the assignments).

1. Compare munera to ludi. What are the similarities and differences in these events? What cultural purposes and needs did each serve?
   
   
2. Consider the depictions of Arria, Murdia and Turia. How are they similar. What do these similarities tell us about Roman women? Consider Juvenal's Sixth Satire on women. What features characterize women according to Juvenal? What do these different representations of Roman women tell us about the way Roman's thought about women. Are these representations historically accurate? If not, what does the difference between the representation and the actual facts suggest?
   
   
3. Describe the various ways that the Romans believed their gods communicated with them. What do these practices tell us about the role Romans understood religion to play in their society?
   
   
   
4. Describe the layout of a Roman House (drawing a floor plan will do the job). What does this information tell us about what Romans understood the role of a member of the elite to be in their society? What does this information tell us about the relationship between rich and poor in Roman society.
   
   
5. Did Roman law treat a Roman citizen's sons any different than it did his slaves? Why or why not?  
   
   
6. What role does slavery play in our understanding of Romanitas? What difficulties confront the historian who chooses Roman slavery as her topic?
   
   
7. What was the legal status of Roman women? How might studying laws relating to women help us understand Romanitas?
   
   
8. Why did Romans deify their emperors? What does the practice tell us about changes in Romanitas under the empire.
   
   
9. Why did Romans persecute Christians? Why did the persecutions fail to control the growth of Christianity?
   
   
10. Why might a Roman participate in a mystery cult? How would his/her participation affect his understanding of and relation to traditional Roman religious practices?
    
    
11. What do the categories of "good" and "bad" emperor tell us about what Romans considered the role of the emperor to be? Pick examples of good and bad emperors and compare and constrast them.
    
    
12. Describe the constitutional innovations wrought by the Julio-Claudians. What prompted these changes?
    
    
13. The principate changed under the Flavians. How and why? It changed again during the reigns of the Five Good Emperors. How and why?
    
    
14. Who were the Five Good Emperors and why were they good?
    
    
15. The Roman army changed considerably from Augustus' day to that of Commodus. How and why?