Latina Christiana assignment week of May 16th (Week 30)

Wednesday, May 17th

 

Read Famous Men of Rome pp. 111-115.

Review pp. 105-109.

Identify the following:

Octavius

Mark Antony

Lepidus

Sextus Pompey

Cleopatra

Praetorian guards

Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Varius

Livy

Aeneid

Know the answers to the following questions:

1.     Who were the three rulers of the 2nd Triumvirate?

2.     Where did the Triumvirate defeat Brutus and how did Brutus die?

3.     Where was the battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated and what was their end?

4.     Who was the grandnephew of Julius Caesar?

5.     Octavius became______________? (What name?)

6.     How long did Augustus rule?  What did the end of his reign mean for the republic?

7.     Name some famous people who lived during the reign of Augustus.

8.     Friday, May 19th

 

            No Assignment

 

            Monday, May 22nd

Read Famous Men of Rome, pp. 117-126

Review pp. 111-115.

Identify the following:

Tiberius

Caligula

Claudius

Nero

Agrippina

Britannicus

Locusta

Galba

Seneca

Otho and Vitellius

Vespasin

Titus

Colosseum

Baths o Titus

Pompeii and Herculaneum

Pliny the Younger

Know the answers to the following questions:

  1. How did Nero become emperor?
  2. Name some of the cruel things he did as emperor.
  3. How did Nero kill his stepbrother and stepmother.
  4. How did Nero live and what did he like to do?
  5. Whom dod Nero persecute?
  6. Whom did he order to commit suicide?
  7. Who captured Jerusalem and destroyed the temple of the Jews fulfilling the prophecy of Christ?
  8. What contributions did Titus make to the city of Rome?
  9. Describe how Titus behaved toward the citizens of Rome?
  10. What did Titus mean when he said “I have lost a day.”