A | B |
Who was Augustus' 3rd wife? | Livia |
What are Augustus' dates of reign? | 27 B.C. - 14 A.D. |
Which emperor started the praetorian guard? | Augustus |
What are Nero's dates of reign? | 54-68 |
What are Calgula's dates of reign? | 37-41 |
What are Claudius' dates of reign? | 41-54 |
What are Tiberius' dates of reign? | 14 - 37 |
Which emperor instituted the praetorian guard? | Augustus |
Who was the queen of the Iceni who led a rebellion against Rome? | Boudica |
To what island did an embarrassed Tiberius go into exile in 6 B.C.? | Rhodes |
Which emperor was an amateur historian? | Claudius |
What title did Augustus prefer? | princeps |
Which emperor is sometimes referred to as Gaius? | Caligula |
Under which emperor were the lost standards of Crassus recovered? | Tiberius |
Which prefect helped Caligula to the throne? | Macro |
Who was Nero's first wife? | Octavia |
How many wives did Nero have? | 3 |
How many wives did Augustus have? | 3 |
How many wives did Claudius have? | 4 |
Who was the Roman commander at the Teutoberg Forest disaster | Varus |
Which close friend of Augustus is closely associated with patronage? | Maecenas |
Who was Augustus friend and son-in-law? | Marcus Agrippa |
In what year was the First Settlement? | In 27 B.C. - Augustus first year of office |
After what event was Augustus' Second Settlement? | In 23 B.C. when Augustus became deathly ill |
Under which emperor was the Portus built? | Claudius |
Who was Claudius 3rd wife? | Messalina |
How many legions were lost at Teutoberg Forest? | 3 |
Which emperor expelled the Jews? | Claudius |
On which island did Tiberius spend the last part of his reign? | Capri |
Who was the ambitious prefect under Tiberius who was executed for treason? | Sejanus |
Who was the prefect who supposedly smothered Tiberius? | Macro |
Under which emperor did freedman rise to great heights in the Roman government? | Claudius |
How many districts did Augustus divide Rome into? | 14 |
Who was the German leader at Teutoberg Forest? | Arminius/Hermann |
Who supposedly poisoned Claudius? | Agrippina the Younger |
Which emperor added Britain to the empire? | Claudius |
Who was the Roman commander who conquered Britain and became it first Roman governor? | Aulus Plautius |
Which emperor was the brother of Germanicus? | Claudius |
Which emperor was the youngest to rise to the throne? | Nero |
What is the Latin term for treason? | maiestas |
Which emperor pushed family values? | Augustus |
Which famous poet was banished for "a poem and an error" by Augustus? | Ovid |
Who said "I found Rome a city of bricks and let it a city of marble? | Augustus |
What are the years of the Pax Romana? | 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. |
Which of the Julio-Claudians had been an an accomplished army commander in Germanian and Pannonia before becoming emperor? | Tiberius |
Which emperor had a mysterious illness the first year of his reign which drastically affected his character? | Caligula |
Under which emperor were two of the lost standards of Varus recovered? | Tiberius |
To what town was Ovid banished? | Tomi(s) |
Whom did Tiberius intend to co-rule with Caligula? | Gemellus |
Which emperor tried to make his horse Incitatus a consul? | Caligula |
Who was the beloved wife of Tiberius whom he was forced to divorce for Julia | Vispania |
Which emperor had his soldiers collect seashells as spoils of war? | Caligula |
Who was the ruthlessly ambitious prefect under Nero? | Tigellinus |
Whom did Nero make governor of Lusitania so he could steal his wife? | Otho |
Who were the two tutors of Nero in his early years? | Seneca the Younger & Burrus |
In what year was the Great Fire? | 64 |
Which pregnant woman did Nero kick to death? | Poppaea Sabina |
Which Britain led an uprising which almost succeeded | Boudica |
Which emperor built enormous pleasure boats? | Caligula |
Whom did Agrippina the Elder accuse of causing the death of her husband Germanicus? | Tiberius and Livia |
During whose reign did the Iceni stage a serious rebellion? | Nero |
Who succeeded Sejanus as prefect. | Macro |
Who wrote the Metamorphoses? | Ovid |
Which emperor was a singer, actor and chariot racer? | Nero |
Who was the mother of Tiberius? | Livia |
Who built the Domus Aurea? | Nero |
Who wrote "The Art of Love" | Ovid |
Who wrote "The Res Gestae"? | Augustus |
Who said: "Let them hate so long as they fear"? | Caligula |
What were the "Vigiles" | Rome' fire department |
Who started the Vigiles? | Augustus |
Whom did Nero exile to the island of Pandateria | Octavia |