Identifications

Events & Themes

Places & Monuments

Actium

Augustus’ Republicanism

Augustus’ ‘Abdication’

Augustus’ Principate

Augustus’ German Disaster (Teutoburg Forest)

Augustus’ Religiosity

 

Tiberius’ Maiestas (treason) Trials

Caligula’s

Claudius’ Foreign Policy

Nero’s Philhellenism

Nero’s Fire (64 a.d.)

Conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso

Persecutions of Christians

 

Domitian’s Reign of Terror

Nerva’s Accession

Trajan’s Dacian Campaign

Hadrian’s Tours of the Empire

Hadrian’s Adoptions

Hadrian’s Foreign Policy

 

Imperial Cult (Emperor-worship)

Pompeii

Herculaneum

Baiae

Capri (Tiberius)

 

Forum of Augustus

Forum of Trajan

Trajan’s Column

Marcus Aurelius’ Column

Flavian Amphitheater (=Colosseum)

 

Dacia

Parthia

Armenia

Rhine River

Danube River

‘The Gallic Empire’

 

 

13 Dioceses of Diocletian

Constantinople

 

Identifications

Augustus

Livia

M. Vipsanius Agrippa

Marcellus

Gaius & Lucius Caesar

Maecenas

Virgil

Tiberius

Drusus

Germanicus & Agrippina

Aelius Sejanus

Vipsania

Julia

Agrippina (the Elder)

 

Maiestas (Treason) trials

Gaius Caligula

Agrippina

3 sisters

 

Claudius

Britannicus

Nero

Agrippina (the Younger)

Poppaea Sabina

Tigellinus

Seneca

Burrus

Lucan & Petronius

C. Calpurnius Piso

 

4 Emperors

Galba

Otho

Vitellius

Flavians

Vespasian

Titus

Domitian

Adoptives

Nerva

Trajan

Hadrian

Antonines

Antoninus Pius

Marcus Aurelius

Commodus

 

Severans

Septimius Severus

Alexander Severus

 

‘Military Emperors – 3rd c.

Decius

 

 

Diocletian (3rd & 4th c.)

Tetrarchy

‘Augustus’ & ‘Caesar’

 

Constantine & Heirs (4th c)

Constantius (father of C.)

 

East & West

 

 

 

II. Detailed Paragraph

***Give 5-7 relevant facts (5 on test; complete 3) which define and give due emphasis to the issues, personalities and wider contexts.

 

Year of the 4 Emperors

 

Reign of Tiberius

Praetorian Guard

The Principate

Flavian Dynasty

 

Mithraism

Antonine Dynasty

Severan Dynasty

Diocletian’s Reforms

 

Constantine’s Reign

 

 

 

 

III. Essays

 

(1) Octavian to Augustus: from Republic to Empire

            1) Constitution: Principate vs. Republican System

            2) Politics: Senate & People

            3) Religion

            4) People & Social Life

            5) Law & Justice

            6) Foreign Policy: Provinces, Armies    

            7) Arts: Literature, Architecture & Representation

8) OVERALL (past – present – future)

 

 

(2) Dynasties: Compare & Contrast (Cycles & Trends, Personalities, Domestic & Foreign Policy, Founders of Dynasties)

            1) Julio-Claudians

            2) Flavians

            3) Adoptives & Antonines

            4) Severans

            5) Diocletian & ‘Tetrarchs’