HIST 377 Study Guide: Final Exam

Main Index
I. Identification
The first section will be listing and identification section.  For identifications, be sure to explain completely who, what, when, where, why, how  & significance for each item.  

You will have one section of ids, part of which will come from a cumulative list and the rest will be new material.  You will have to choose at least one from the cumulative material.

30 Tyrants Herodotus Aeschylus Ekklesia
Mediterranean Triad Diet One-Sex Model Barbarian Mos Maiorem
Alexander the Great Melian Dialogue Romulus & Remus Pericles
Pax Deorum Alcibiades Philip of Macedon Marathon
Eunomia Fiscus iudaicus    
Royal Rome Tri Nomina Pietas Pontifex Maximus
Senate Comitia Curata Centuriate Assembly Plebian Assembly
Consul Praetors Tribunes Censors
Fasces Fasti Dictator Cincinnatus
Imperium Potestas Auctoritas Forum
auspicium Capitoline Hill Vesta/ Vestal Virgins Fortuna
Janus Titus Livius Romulus & Remus Lucretia
pomerium Titus Manlius Familias Pater Familias
Pater Potestas Bacchnalia Patron-Client System Twelve Tables
Tutela Lex Julia de Adulteris Lex Papia Poppaea Annales Maximi
Struggle of the Orders Secessio Collegiality Latin League
Gallic Disaster Samnite Wars Sabine Women Pyrrhus
Carthage Messana Corvus Marcus Atilius Regulus
First Punic War Hannibal Scipio the Younger Quintus Fabius Maximus
Fabian Tactics Treaty of Lutatius Battle of Cannae Republican Warfare
Cato the Censor Third Punic War Numidians Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus
Hispania Gracchi Brothers Rhine-Danube Border Teutoburg Forest
Adrianople Augustus Caesar Julio-Claudian Emperors Great Fire of Rome
Year of the Four Emperors First Triumvirate Second Triumvirate Pater Patriae
Flavian Dynasty Constantine Diocletian Julius Caesar
Publican Sulla Cicero Pompey the Great
Pliny Polybius Clement of Rome Irenaeus
Didache Tacitus Brutus  


II. Listing

The following are possible listing items

  1. Name the four elements of the universe

  2. Name the four humors of the body

  3. Name the Seven Hills of Rome

  4. Name the Seven Kings of Rome and one gift of each

  5. Name the five periods of Roman history with the dates of each.

  6. Name three Roman social values

  7. Name the social classes of Rome in order.

  8. Name the twelve Roman Gods and twelve Greek ones and the area each represented.

  9. Name the five major ethnic groups on the Italian peninsula

  10. Name the Julio-Claudian emperors in Order.

  11. Name the emperors of the Flavian dynasty.

  12. Name four problems that arose for Rome from the conquests of the Middle Republic

  13. Name ten sources from the ancient world.  Give their country of origin and the type of source.

  14. Name the seven sets of islands within Greece
  15. Name three different types of Archons in Athens
  16. Compare the Roman, Greek & Christian dating systems.
  17. List the four separate ages of Greece and 2 sources for each.
  18. Name five works of Aristotle
  19. List the rules of secular warfare in Greece
  20. List five characteristics of the Hellenistic World
  21. Name four mystery religions and five characteristics of the mystery religions
  22. Name five types of magistrates in Rome and what each did
  23. Name three reasons Rome won the First Punic War 
  24. Name four early Christian writers (not in the NT canon) and an idea from each.
  25. Name the members of the First & Second Triumvirates

IV. Quotes

  1. "Master do not forget the Athenians."
  2. "This memorial hides Aeschylus, the Athenian, son of Euphorion Who died in wheat-bearing Gela. The precinct of Marathon and the long-haired Mede, Who knows it well, may tell of his great valor.”
  3. “Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedemonians that we lie here in obedience to their orders.”
  4. “A woman is, as it were, an infertile male. She is female in fact on account of a kind of inadequacy.”
  5. "Man is a political animal." -- Be prepared to give the actual translation.
  6. “I declare that our city is an education to Greece,”
  7. "Among the Greeks, individuals determined to stand out from all others were characteristic, and the concept of personal power became paramount"
  8. "so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by the lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been produced by Hellenes and some by Barbarians, may lose their renown, and especially that the causes may be remembered for which these waged war with one another."
  9. "Cartago delenda est"
  10. “I place the earth under my sway; you, O Zeus, keep Olympus.”
  11. “Give me a lever and a place to stand on, and I will move the earth.”
  12. “Veni, Vidi, Vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
  13. “Laws are silent in the midst of arms (war).” (Silent enim leges inter arma.)
  14. “Captive Greece took captive her rude conqueror.”
  15. “Varus, give me back my legions.”
  16. “What an artist the world is losing in me.”
  17. “the study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind”
  18. "There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well."
  19. "And on the Lord's own day gather yourselves together and break bread and give thanks, first confessing your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure."
  20. "There are two paths, one of life and one of death, and the difference is great between the two paths."
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V. Essay
The third section will be to write a complete essay on two of the following questions.  You will have a choice of five questions. You choose two, one will likely be cumulative. 

Roman essayss

  1. Describe the political, social and religious characteristics of Royal Rome.  What influence did these characteristics have on the development of the Roman republic and the eventual Roman Empire? 
  2. Explain the structure and development of the Roman Republic. Discuss its primary features, how it worked, how & why it changed, and its eventual problems.
  3. Discuss the Roman conquest of the Italian peninsula.  What enemies did they face?   What stages did they progress through? 
  4. Explain the causes, progress and results of Roman conquests overseas.  What were the major wars they fought? What stages did it progress through? How did these conquests affect Roman government?
  5. Discuss the importance and function of the family in Roman society.  Who was in charge? How did this affect various parts of society?
  6. Explain the process of the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire.  What were the two main parts of this transformation?   How did the government change and why?

Cumulative Essays

  1. Discuss the evolution of the concept of the  "Classical World".  What are the origins of this term?  How has it evolved?  What types of periodization have been suggested? Why?   What explanations have been offered for its "Fall", or was there one?

  2. Compare and contrast the Roman and Athenian society and government.  Where was political power invested and why?  What virtues did each society consider most important? How was the family structured in these two societies?

  3. Robin Lane Fox has three themes he argues are critical to understanding the Classical World. Identify these three themes and then explain how they apply to Greece, the Hellenistic World, and Rome.  Use specific examples from the text, class and the readings.

  4. Compare and contrast the roles of women in the Greek polei, Macedonia and Rome. What commonalities were there?  What were the differences?  What did Christianity change about this?

  5. Choose at least three of the ancient authors we have read this semester.  Explain the importance of each for historians and compare and contrast the values they illustrate for the ancient world.

  6. Discuss how the study of the Classical world gives a greater understanding to the New Testament and Christianity. Give at least five separate ways with specific illustrations.