CLCS 381 Final Exam Review Sheet
Alternate Final Exam, Monday. May 2, 7-9:00 PM, Armstrong 1010
Scheduled Final Exam: Sat. May 7,
8-10:00 AM, Matthews 175
Final Exam
will cover three things: 1. Map test of the Roman Forum, 2. Events from 59 BC
(the First Triumvirate) to the Augustan Settlement (27 BC), 3. Two essays, one
of which will be assigned at the final.
Recommended
Readings: Sir William
Smith's Smaller History of Rome, pp 223-321; Plutarch’s
Life of Caesar; Suetonius
Life of Divius Iulius;
Chapter on Roman
Dictatorships; Notes
for Caesar’s Consulship; Notes
for the 50s BC; Notes
on the Civil War; Notes
on Caesar’s Dictatorship; Notes
on the Augustan Settlement; Augustan
Flow Chart
Also, here is a link
to recent Rapid Response Reports that cover some of the items below.
Final exam will consist of a map test (10%), multiple
choice questions (including images) (60%) and one essay to be determined by lot
(30%)
MAP TEST (10 items, 1 pt
each):
Map test will be based on the plan of
the Roman Forum at the Roman Forum Map
link
Study
Guide to the Roman Forum
MULTIPLE CHOICE ITEMS (30 items, 60 pts credit):
M. Antony, M. Porcius Cato, Pompey, Crassus, Cicero,
his wife Terentia, Vercingetorix,
M. Calpurnius Bibulus, P. Clodius,
Lesbia/Clodia, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, First
Triumvirate, Caesar's Commentaries (Bellum
Gallicum), Battle of Pharsalus, Julia (wife of
Pompey), renewal of the triumvirate at Lucca in 55 BC, Battle of Carrhae in 53, Basilica Julia,
Basilica Aemilia, Temple of Venus Genetrix, clementia, M. Iunius
Brutus, Cleopatra,
proscriptions, sacrosanctitas,
Second Triumvirate, Octavian (Augustus Caesar), Cato/Anti-Cato, imperator, Dictator Rei Publicae
Constituendae Causa, Dictator in Perpetuo,
Imp. Julius Divi f. Caesar, Augustus, Princeps, the Augustan Settlement: 5-year grants of Tribunician postestas, 10-year
grants of proconsular imperium, Imperial Fora at
Rome, Julio-Claudian Dynasty
IMAGES:
Temple of Julius Caesar Basilica Julia
Caesar’s coin of 44 BC the Palatine Complex
(obverse, Caesar as
Pontifex;
Rev: Statue of Venus Genetrix)
M. Antonius
Forum Julia
Coin struck by Pompey’s Coin of Brutus 42 BC
sons (45 BC);
Brutus Ara Pacis
Livia Julia,
daughter of Augustus
FINAL EXAM ESSAYS – YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BOTH
ESSAYS, TO BE DETERMINED BY SORTITION (30 pts credit)
ODD: Was Julius Caesar a Rebel or a Reformer?
Give 2-3 examples from the readings indicating whether
you believe that Caesar was a Rebel or a Reformer. Was he bent on destroying
the Republican system of government and motivated purely out of self-interest,
or did he understand the problems confronting the Republic and making a genuine
effort to fix them, putting the best interests of the state before all else?
Put another way, who really understood the best interests of the Republic –
Caesar or the Senatorial Oligarchy?
EVEN: STOP THE MADNESS: Could
the Civil War of 49 BC have been avoided? Describe the positions and/or
attitudes of Caesar and his adversaries at this juncture. Be sure to include in
your answer discussion of the positions of Caesar, Pompey, and the “pauci potentes”.