Final exam preparation focuses on significant “ID” terms.
Early Rome
- Phoenicians
- rex (“king”)
- senate
- comitia centuriata
- The “7 Kings” (in Livy Book I)
- Romulus & Remus
- Latins, Latium
- Rape of the Sabine Women
- gens (pl. gentes)
- Aeneas
- Ascanius/Iulus
- pater familias
- Jupiter Optimus Maximus
- L. Junius Brutus
Social Conflict and the Constitution
- patricians/ plebeians
- imperium
- auspices
- tribune of the plebs
- dictator
- Plebeian Tribal Council (concilium plebis)
- decemvirs
- Lex Licinia Sextia (367 B.C.)
- Lex Hortensia (287 B.C.)
- pontifex maximus
- consul
- praetor
- quaestor
- censor
- aedile
Roman Imperialism and its Consequences
- Veii
- Latin League, Latin Allies
- Gauls
- Battle at the Allia River
- Tarentum
- Samnites
- The Samnite Wars
- King Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Saguntum
- Hannibal
- The First Punic War
- The Second Punic War
- Mamertini
- King Hiero of Syracuse
- Battle of River Ticinus
- Battle of Lake Trasimene
- “Delaying” Tactics – the Fabian strategy
- Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.)
- Hamilcar Barca
- P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
- Battle of Zama (202 B.C.)
- Sardinia
- The Ptolemies
- Philip V of Macedon
- Third Punic War
- Second Macedonian War
- M. Porcius Cato the Elder
- Perseus
- provincia, “province,” provincials
- Third Macedonian War
- L. Aemilius Paullus
- Battle of Pydna (168 B.C.)
- Scipio Aemilianus
- T. Quinctius Flamininus
The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla
- equestrians, equites
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
- Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
- _optimates
_ - populares
- Jugurtha
- Q. Metellus
- M. Livius Drusus the Younger
- Gaius Marius
- The Social War
- Cimbri & Teutones
- Battle of Arausio (105 B.C.)
- L. Cornelius Sulla
- Mithridates
- (Cornelius) Cinna
- nobiles (nobles, aristocrats)
- novus homo (a “new man”: as Cato Sr., Marius, Cicero)
- Proscription
Pompey and Julius Caesar
- Catiline (L. Sergius Catilina)
- M. Aemilius Lepidus
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- M. Porcius Cato the Younger
- Q. Sertorius
- P. Clodius Pulcher
- L. Lucullus
- Spartacus
- M. Licinius Crassus
- M. Tullius Cicero
- Gaius Verres
- The “First Triumvirate”
- Gaius Julius Caesar
- freedman (libertus)
- Parthia
- M. Antonius (Mark Antony)
- River Rubicon
- Battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.)
- Battle of Munda (45 B.C.)
- Sextus Pompeius
- Gaius Cassius, M. Junius Brutus
- Ides of March (44 B.C.)
Augustus
- Octavian
- The Second Triumvirate
- Battle of Philippi (42 B.C.)
- Cleopatra
- Battle of Actium (31 B.C.)
- M. Vipsanius Agrippa
- Praetorian Guard
- Vigiles
- Annona
- Parthia
- Imperial Cult
- Vergil
- Horace
- Livy
- Tiberius (= Tiberius Claudius Nero)
- “Augustus”
- M. Claudius Marcellus
- tribunicia potestas (tribunician power)
- Gaius and Lucius Caesar
- princeps, principate
- imperium maius
The 1st and 2nd centuries AD
- Tiberius
- Sejanus
- Agrippina the Younger
- Gaius (= Caligula)
- Claudius
- Nero
- Seneca the Younger
- “Golden House”
- Great Fire of Rome (64 A.D.)
- Earliest Persecution of Christians
- Jewish War (66-70 A.D.)
- Vindex
- Galba
- Otho
- Vitellius
- Vespasian
- Titus
- Domitian
- The Forum of Peace
- The Baths of Titus
- The Flavian Amphitheater
- Nerva
- Trajan
- Hadrian
- Antoninus Pius
- Dacia, Dacians
- Marcus Aurelius
The Army and Domestic Life
- Legion
- Professionalization of the Roman Army
- Centurion
- Hadrian’s Wall
- Insula
- Domus
- Atrium
- Tablinum
- Triclinium
- Patron/client
Slavery
- Manumission
- Peculium
- Trimalchio (in Satyricon)
- Seneca’s “Stoic View” of Slavery
- Freedmen
The Severans, the 3rd Century Crisis, Diocletian, Constantine
- Commodus
- Pertinax
- Septimius Severus
- Caracalla
- Macrinus
- Julia Domna
- Elagabalus
- Severus Alexander
- Valerian
- Palmyra
- Odenathus & Zenobia
- Goths
- Diocletian
- Tetrarchy
- Edict on Maximum Prices
- Constantine
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge
- “Edict of Milan” (313 A.D.)
- Arius of Alexandria
- The Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.)
- Constantinople
