1
Q
Called “Last of the Romans”…
A
Flavius Aetius (but also could be Sitilcho, Belesarius, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Valens or Asinius Pollio)
2
Q
Proclaimed emperor at the age of 18…
A
Arcadius
3
Q
Proclaimed emperor at the age of 10…
A
Honorius
4
Q
Proclaimed emperor at the age of 4…
A
Valentinian II
(he could’ve been 2 or 4)
5
Q
The only emperor with Visigothic support…
A
Avitus
6
Q
Exiled to Alba Fucens…
A
Perseus of Macedon (could also be Bituitus, Syphax, Congonnetiacus)
7
Q
Teutobad and Boiorix…
A
Arausio (possibly Teutones and Cimbri?)
8
Q
What Burgundian…
A
Gunther/Gundahar
9
Q
Who rose through the ranks…
A
Maximinus Thrax
10
Q
What emperor abolished the practice of…
A
Hadrian (practice of circumcision)
11
Q
What law abolished…
A
Lex Poetelia (it eliminated the nexum )
12
Q
Said to be descended from the Gracchi and from Trajan…
A
Gordian I
13
Q
A descendant of Claudius II Gothicus…
A
Constantine I / The Great
14
Q
Who became emperor at the age of 13…
A
Gordian III (could possibly be Severus Alexander)
15
Q
(A battle) in Dobruja
A
Abrittus (also could be Adamklissi)
16
Q
Near Tarracina…
A
Lautulae
17
Q
Who drove the Samnites out of Lucania…
A
Scipio Barbatus
18
Q
What king of Sparta…
A
Archidamus or Cleonymous
or Nabis (who fought Philpoemon)
19
Q
On the Gulf of Otranto…
A
Tarentum (Adv Round3 UF 25) or Thurii or Heraclea (think Pyrhhic war at least)
20
Q
Killed at a banquet…
A
Odoacer (killed by Ostrogothic Theodoric the Great/Amal)
21
Q
Pelted with turnips…
during a riot at Hadrumentum…
A
Vespasian
22
Q
Nicknamed Mulio / The Muleteer
A
Vespasian
23
Q
What emperor joined the Salii at age eight…
A
Marcus Aurelius
24
Q
First introduced to Stoicism by Junius Rusticus…
A
Marcus Aurelius
25
Who became emperor at age 6..?
Valentinian III
26
Emperor for 77 days…
Petronius Maximus
27
Emperor for 87 days…
Pertinax
28
Emperor for 88 days…
Aemilius Aemilianus (and Florianus)
29
Ruling one day longer than Pertinax…
Aemilius Aemilianus (and Florianus)
30
On the 3rd (2nd possibly) of June…
Gaiseric or Vandal (sack of Rome)
31
What demagogue…
Menestheus (myth not history)
Or Isodorus (a Jew during Caligula I think?)
32
What *Magister pecoris camelorum*…
Calocaerus
33
What emperor instituted Calocaerus as *magister pecoris camelorum*…
Constantine I / The Great
34
Titus Vinius, Icelus, and Cornelius Laco...
Galba (the Paedogogues of Galba)
35
Proclaimed emperor at age 6…
Valentinian III
36
Defeated at Vesontio...
Julius Vindex
37
Whose mother was Mummia Achaica...
Galba
38
Who stood irresolute at Novaesium...
Hordeonius Flaccus
39
Vestricius Sprunnia and Annius Gallus...
Otho (commanders against Vitellius when holding the Po River)
40
What Batavian chieftain...
Julius Civilus
41
"I have made but on mistake" was said by...
Titus
42
"An emperor ought to die standing" was said by...
Vespasian
43
Herodium, Machaerus, and Masada...
Vespasian / Jewish War
44
"*Acta est fabula, plaudite!*”
Augustus (these his dying words, something like "The play is over, applaud")
45
"Noli turbare circulos meos" or in english "Do not disturb my circles"...
Archimedes
46
Castricus...
gave away the plot...
Caepio and Murena
47
Dying after he fell off his horse...
Drusus the Elder (9 BC) or Theodosius II (450 AD)
48
Artaxias, Phraates IV, and Arminius...
Augustus
49
Replacing his older brother, Artaxias II, as king of Armenia...
Tigranes III (during Augustus. 20bc?)
50
The Cantabri and Astures...
Augustus or Agrippa
51
Glaphyra of Cappadocia and Cleopatra Selene...
Juba II
52
What emperor's last words were "But what evil have I done? Whom have I killed?"...
Didius Julianus
53
Publius Ventidius Bassus...
Mark Antony or Parthia or Mt. Gindarus or Cilician Gates
54
What ambitious aedile...
Egnatius Rufus
55
Claudia Acte...
Nero (one of his mistresses)
56
Who, the first *praefectus annonae*...
Gaius Turranius
57
Clodia Pulchra, Scribonia, and Livia...
Augustus (his wives)
58
Exiled to Tremirus...
Julia the Younger (daughter of Julia and Agrippa, one of four siblings btw)
(Exiled cause she had an affair with Silanus)
59
Who died in Marseille...
Lucius Caesar
60
Who died in Limyra...
Gaius Caesar
61
Who, occupying the Oasis of Djerma in 19 BC,...
Cornelius Balbus the younger
62
The Garamantes...
Cornelius Balbus the younger
63
The Marmaridae...
Sulpicius Quirinius
64
The Gaetulians...
Cornelius Lentulus (Gaetulicus) (I think the father of the Gaetulicus who tried to install Lepidus under Caligula)
65
The Sabaeans...
Aelius Gallus (prefect of Egypt)
66
Due to a lack of water...
Aelius Gallus (had to abandon the siege of Mariba)
67
Being misled by the Nabataean guide Syllaeus...
Aelius Gallus (encountered
a disaster in the Arabian Desert during his conquest of Arabia Felix)
68
Segusio =
Marcus Julius Cottius (the Celtic king and prefect of the *Alpes Cottiae*) (note Cottius during time of Augustus, importantly around 13 BC)
69
Antistia, Aemillia, Mucia Tertia, Julia (daughter of JC), and Cornelia Metella...
Pompey (all his wives)
70
What widow of MIthridates of Pergamum...
Dynamis (the Russian queen who then married Polemo)
71
Polemo and Mithridates of Pergamum...
Dynamis (two of her husbands, Polemo of Pontus was after first one's death)
72
After the capture of Enna...
Eunus (the guy during 1st Servile War)
73
The govenor of Macedon, Marcus Primus,...
Fannius Caepio and Licinius Murena or Augustus (if it like all happened under whose reign) or Thrace or Thracian Odrysae
74
What Gallic mistress of Augustus...
Terentia
75
Who smeared poison onto figs...
Livia (killing Augustus)
76
While on his deathbed, what emperor joked...
Augustus
77
"Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly!"...
Augustus (on his deathbed)
78
In 23 BC, what two powers…
*Tribunicia Potestas* and *Imperium Proconsulare Maius* (these were granted to Augustus)
79
What emperor born in Velitrae...
Augustus
80
Who died in Rhegium…
Julia the Elder
81
"No friend has ever served me and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full" was on who's tombstone...
Sulla
82
Publius Salvius Aper and Quintus Ostorius Scapula...
Praetorian Prefects / Augustus (1st Praetorian Prefects, established by Augustus)
83
"primum facinus novī principatūs" or "first crime of the new principate"...
were the words Tacitus remarked about whose execution...
Agrippa Postumus
84
Who was sent to negotiate with Artabanus III in 19 A.D...
Germanicus
85
Landing at Rutupiae, Kent...
Aulus Plautius
86
What general made up for the losses of Julius Paelignus in Armenia...
Domitius Corbulo
87
What general campaigned in 47 AD...
against the Frisii...
and led raids against the pirates of the North Sea...
Domitius Corbulo
88
Hanno the Great, Valerius Falto, and Lutatius Catulus
Aegates Island (after this Lutatius Catulus built Temple of Juturna in Campius Marcius)
89
Boodes and Hannibal Gisgo defeated Scipio Asina...
Lipari Islands (260 BC)
90
The Temple of Juturna was contructed after what...
Aegates Island (by Lutatius Catulus) (in the Campius Martius)
91
Literally meaning "Little calf"...
Vitellius
92
"What emperor's last words were ""Yet I was once your emperor""?"
Vitellius
93
“What king of Rome used the sp—“
Tarquinius Superbus (“…oils of Suessa Pompetia to build the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus”)
94
"What emperor put down the revolt of a priest-king of Emessa..."
Valerian (the priest-king is Uranius Antoninus)
95
"Said to be the first Christian emperor..."
Philip the Arab
96
5 women and 2 children…
Masada (only who survived)
97
What sheer rock fortress…
Masada
98
What divorced husband of Catimandua…
Venutius
99
Elevator to Augustus at eight years old…
Or 16? I think
Gratian
100
What people from Antium…
Volsci
101
Between the Anio and Trerus…
Mt Algidus
102
Cloelius Gracchus…
(Led the) Aequi (at) Mt. Algidus (in 458 BC)
103
Titus Herminius and Spurius Lartius…
Horatius Colcles (these two were the men who protected it with him)
104
Who seized the Capitoline Hill in 460 BC…
Appius Herdonius (also P. Valerius Poplicola II captured it back from Herdonius same year)
105
Bishop George of Cappadocia…
Julian (The Apostate)
106
What governor of Cappadocia…
Caesennius Paetus or Julius Paelignus
107
What governor of Pannonia…
Septimius Severus (or Hadrian)
108
Landing near Utica…
Scribonius Curio
109
With the help of the Mauretanian King Bogud…
Julius Caesar (victorious over sons of Pompey at Munda)
110
After a victory at Wurttemberg…
Maximinus Thrace (235 AD)
111
What name is shared by a Greek merchant…
Firmus
112
What people, with their tidal estuaries…
(Sea faring) Veneti
113
What bankrupt young noble, a tribune of 50 BC…
Scribonius Curio
114
Who was given *Imperium Infinitum*…
Pompey (in prelims) or Marcus Antonius Creticus (in semi/finals)
115
Clearing the St. Bernard passes and conducting expeditions against the Salassi…
M. Valerius Messala
116
What trans-Danubian tribe…
Bastarnae (or Dacia if they even a tribe)
117
Who was charged after making an unprovoked attack against the Thracian Odrysae…
Marcus Primus (under Augustus)
118
Who attacked Lycia, smoked out Pamphylia, and reduced the border of Cilicia…
P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus
119
Who wintered among the Albanians…
Pompey
120
Quaestor *Ostiensis*
Saturninus
121
Whose reign saw a plot by Titus Quartinus…
(backed by Osrhoenian archers from Syria)…
Maximinus Thrax
122
What wife of Gordian I…
Fabia Orestilla
123
What daughter of Gordian I…
Maecia Faustina
124
What wife of Gordian III…
Tranquillina (the daughter of Timesitheus)
125
Who led a rebellion at Thysdrus…
Gordians (I and II)
126
Who wrote a 30 book Antoniniad, about the lives of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius…
Gordian I
127
Whose 3 weeks of imperial fame…
Gordian I (and II)
128
Whose 20 day reign…
Gordian I and II
129
Killed by Capellianus…
Gordian II
130
Who used his own belt to hang himself after hearing of his son’s death…
Gordian I
131
What group, which met in the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitol to defy Maximinus Thrax…
Senators
132
With the assistance of the *vigintiviri*…
Pupienus and Balbinus
133
The women of what city are rumored to have sacrificed their hair to make bow strings for the defenders…
Aquileia (against Maximinus Thrax)
134
What emperor, along with his son, was killed at Aquileia…
Maximinus Thrax (his son Maximus)
135
Dragged naked through the streets of Rome by the Praetorian Guard, what elderly emperors…
Pupienus and Balbinus
136
A reign of 99 days…
Pupienus and Balbinus
137
Whose reign saw a rebellion at Carthage by Marcus Asinius Sabinianus…
Gordian III
138
During whose reign did Shapur I capture the desert city of Hatra—a prize which escaped attempts from Trajan and Sep Sev…
Gordian III
139
In order to reoccupy Hatra, Nisibis, and Carrhae where did Gordian III and Timesitheus defeat Shapur I in 243 AD…
Rhesaina
140
What wife of Philip the Arab…
Marcia Otacillia Severa
141
Born in Trachonitis…
Philip the Arab
142
What emperor’s death near Circesium…
Gordian III
143
What emperor, place his brother Gaius…
Philip the Arab (Gaius Julius Pricus was placed in charge of eastern provinces)
144
What emperor fought against the Carpi…
Aurelian or Philip the Arab
145
Pacatianus (Moesia and Pannonian), Iotapianus (in the east), Silbannacus (on the Rhine), and Sponsianus (on the Danube)…
Philip the Arab (usurpers in 248-249)
146
Killed at Beroea in Macedonian…
Philip the Arab (Verona is more commonly seen as death place tho)
147
What wife of Decius…
Herennia Etruscilla
148
Born in Budalia near Sirmium…
Decius
149
Building his baths upon the Aventine, repairing the Colosseum, and adopting the surname “Traianus”…
Decius
150
Whose reign saw a governor of Thrace named Titus Julius Priscus declare himself emperor…
Decius
151
Whose reign saw the usurper, Iulius Valens Licinianus…
Decius
152
The first emperor to die in battle against a foreign enemy…
Decius
153
Who died at Abrittus…
Decius (and his son Herennius Etruscus)
154
What emperor born in Perugia…
Trebonianus Gallus
155
What wife of Trebonianus Gallus…
Afinia Gemina Baebiana
156
Who co-ruled with Trebonianus Gallus…
Volusianus and Hostillian
157
Killed at Interamna…
Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus (modern Terni)
158
Who, victorious at Barbalissos…
Shapur I (he defeated Roman legions during Trebonianus Gallus’s reign) (252 AD)
159
What emperor, a governor of Upper Moesia…
Trebonianus Gallus / Aemillius Aemilianus
160
Born at Jerba in Africa…
Aemilius Aemilianus (also Jerba is off coast of Tunisia)
161
What wife of Aemilius Aemilianus…
Gaia Cornelia Supera
162
Murdered by his soldiers near Spoleto…
Aemilius Aemilianus (Pons Sanguinarius in 253 AD)
163
Whose *Breviarium*…
Eutropius (wrote a *Breviarium ab Urbe Condita*)
164
Afterwards known as the Pons Sanguinarius, or “The Bridge of Blood” where did…
Spoleto (Aemilius Aemillianus was killed by his own army)
165
What wife of Valerian…
Egnatia Mariniana
166
Suppressing a revolt by a priest king of Emesa, Uranius Antoninus…
Valerian
167
What priest king of Emesa…
Uranius Antoninus (during Valerian’s reign) (possibly 254)
168
What emperor printed special gold coins for the soldiers known as *multipla*…
Gallienus
169
Infatuated with Pipa, daughter of the Germanic/Marcomannic chieftain Attalus…
Gallienus
170
What 3rd century emperor, born in the region…
Philip the Arab (region of Tranchonitis)
171
What wife of Gallienus…
Cornelia Salonina
172
What son of Gallienus…
Saloninus, Egnatius Marinianus, or Licinius Valerianus
173
Reliving Rome’s chronic water shortage…
Philip the Arab
174
*ite, agiter, o pueri*…
Gallienus (opening lines of his famous family wedding poem) (first line translates to “Come now, my children”)
175
Where did Gallienus defeat the Juthungi in 259 AD…
Milan (first then) Augsburg (in the spring)
176
What young Caesar died in 258 AD in Illyricum…
Valerian II/The younger (son of Gallienus)
177
What governor of Pannonia and Moesia was proclaimed emperor at Sirmium before being defeated at Mursa…
Ingenuus
178
Defeated at Mursa (modern Osijek)…
Ingenuus (by Gallienus) and Magnentius (by Constantius II)
179
Ingenuus, Regalianus, Macrianus major, Macrianus minor, Quietus…
Gallienus
180
Defeated by Aureolus at Mursa…
Ingenuus
181
Defeated and killed in the Balkans by Aureolus in 261 AD…
Macrianus major and minor
182
Where did Odenathus instigate the usurper Quietus to go before he was killed there…
Emesa in Syria
183
What poet emperor…
Gallienus, Gordian I, or Numerian
184
Where did Postumus defeat Saloninus and Silvanus…
Colonia Agrippina
185
What governor of Lower Germany…
A usurper under Gallienus…
Postumus
186
Wounded in the back by an arrow, what emperor…
Gallienus
187
Mainz…
Maximinus Thrax (was proclaimed emperor) / Gallic Usurper Laelianus
188
What blacksmith ruled the *Imperium Galliarum* only 2 days before…
Marcus Marius
189
Capturing the city of Autun after a 7-month siege in 270 AD…
Piovonius Victorinus
190
Installed as emperor at Bordeaux in 271 after the death of Victorinus…
Tetricus
191
In 274 AD, where did Aurelian defeat Tetricus…
Chalons-sur-Marne
192
What *mater castrorum*…
Julia Domna / Valeria / Salonina
193
What name is shared by a guardian of Saloninus…
Silvanus (this name also a governor of Moesia and a woodland aspect of Jupiter)
194
What commander of the Praetorian guard under Valerian defeated the Persians in Cilicia…
Ballista
195
Who suppressed the rebellion of Quietus at Emesa, earning him favor from Gallienus and the titles “Ruler of the Romans” and “Governor of the East”…
Odenathus
196
Who advanced into Mesopotamia in 266 AD and defeated the Persians at Ctesiphon before he died in 267 AD…
Odenathus
197
Named Bat-Zabbai, or “one with beautiful long hair”…
Zenobia
198
A villa at Tivoli…
Hadrian / Zenobia / Antinous
199
What Germanic people from the Black Sea region…
Something Gallienus…
Heruli
200
Who was defeated at Pontirolo…
Aureolus (before he was besieged at Milan by Gallienus in 268 AD)
201
Upon hearing false news that the enemy was attacking, who was struck down by his Dalmatian Calvary commander as he left his tent without his usual body guard…
Gallienus
202
Buried in a tomb on the Via Appia, what emperor…
Gallienus
203
What emperor died from plague at Sirmium…
Claudius II Gothicus
204
What emperor, beloved more than any emperor…
Claudius II Gothicus
205
What emperor’s fists…
Claudius II Gothicus
(so strong that he could dash out the teeth of a horse or a mule)
(maybe made up because Constantine claims descendants)
206
With a 10 ft tall golden statue in front of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, what emperor…
Claudius II Gothicus (maybe made up because Constantine claims descendants)
207
Murdered in a camp outside Milan…
Gallienus
208
The first in a distinguished line of Illyrian emperors…
Claudius II Gothicus
209
Where did Claudius II Gothicus defeat the Alemanni in 268…
Lake Garda / Benacus
210
In 270 AD, where did the Goths win a partial victory in Thrace over Claudius II Gothicus…
before a plague gave the Romans the upper hand…
Mount Haemus
211
Who set out against the Goths even after he consulted the Sibylline books and learned from them that victory could be gained only through the death of the head of state…
Claudius II Gothicus
212
What younger brother of Claudius II Gothicus…
Quintillus
213
Without leaving Aquileia, who called for a doctor to open his veins and take his own life…
Quintillus (when he heard Aurelian gained support of the Danube legions)
214
Murdered at Coenofrurium…
Aurelian
215
What wife of Aurelian…
Ulpia Severina
216
Completed by Probus…
Aurelian’s Wall
217
Urbanus, Septimius, and Domitianus…
Aurelian (usurpers) (Sep in Dalmatian) (Dom in the Balkans)
218
Named after the wealthy senator his father was a tenant farmer for…
Aurelian and family (named after Aurelius)
219
Styling himself as “deus et dominus” or “god and lord”…
Aurelian
220
Antioch, Emesa, and Immae…
Zenobia / Aurelian
221
Battles at Immae…
Aurelian / Zenobia
222
Riding a fast camel…
Zenobia (when she retreated to the Euphrates and Persia for support from Aurelian’s siege of Palmyra because they ran out of supplies)
223
After Aurelian defeated Palmyra, who led a revolt which led to Aurelian’s sack and plunder of Palmyra…
Septimius Antiochus
224
Harsh emperor
Aurelian
225
Mint workers under Felicissimus took refuge…
Caelian Hill (during Aurelian’s reign)
226
Taking refuge of the Caelian…
Mint workers (maybe Felicissimus)
227
What controller of the mint triggered a serious revolt of moneyers at Rome…
Felicissimus
228
What Temple in Palmyra did Aurelian strip of its resources and jewels…
Temple of Bel (to fill his temple to the Sun and the cult of Sol Invictus)
229
Eros aided in the murder of what emperor at Coenofrurium near Perinthus…
Aurelian
230
Fond of lettuce and country produce, what frugal temperate elderly senator…
Tacitus
231
What private secretary of Aurelian…
Eros
232
Where did Bonosus and Proculus lead a rebellion…
Cologne
233
Murdered at Tyana in Cappadocia…
Tacitus
234
After a reign of only 6 months…
Tacitus
235
Murdered at Tarsus…
Florianus (Maximinus Daia/Daza poisoned himself there, thus not murder? Unless suicide is murder?)
236
What half brother of Tacitus…
Florianus
237
A fondness of glassware…
Tacitus
238
Severus and Celer…
*Domus Aurea*
239
Whose gardens on the Esquiline…
Gardens of Maecenas
240
Ruling 88 days…
Florianus / Aemilius Aemilianus
241
Marble statues 30 ft tall were erected in what two emperor’s memories at Interamna…
Florianus and Tacitus (they half brothers)
242
Who equaled Aurelian in military reputation but surpassed him by virtue of his gracious nature…
Probus
243
Emperor at 44 years old…
Probus
244
46 year old emperor…
Gordian II
245
80 year old emperor…
Gordian I
246
Born, murdered, and buried at Sirmium what emperor…
Probus
247
In 279 AD, what nation on the lower Danube did Probus defeat before crossing to Asia Minor…
The Getae
248
Who led bands of robbers, terrorizing Pamphylia and Lycia during the reign of Probus…
Lydius the Isaurian /Palfuerius
249
What Nubian people led a rebellion in Upper Egypt during the reign of Probus…
The Blemmyae
250
In 280 AD, who proclaimed themselves joint emperors at Cologne…
Bonosus and Proculus
251
What Moorish governor of Syria led a revolt in the east during Probus’s reign…
Julius Saturninus (who was killed by his own troops as Probus was still preparing to put down this rebellion)
252
For one wild beast hunt, whose emperor enhanced the Circus Maximus by planting mature trees set within earth filled timber caissons to resemble a forest…
Probus
253
With the support of the armies of Raetia and Noricum…
Carus (proclaimed himself emperor in 282 as Probus set off against the Persians in the east)
254
What emperor born at the sleepy town of Narbo…
Carus
255
What sons of Carus…
Carinus and Numerian
256
What emperor, struck by lightning near Ctesiphon…
Carus
257
On presence of fulfilling a vow to Cybele at Pessinus in Phrygia…
Saturninus (went to Asia Minor in 98 BC)
258
The senate sent Lucius Cassius’s, the governor of Asia’s, troops at whose disposal in the first Mithridatic war…
Manius Aquilius
259
What Cappadocia noble did Sulla install to the throne…
Ariobarzanes
260
Installing Ariobarzanes…
Sulla / Gaius Caesar
261
What victor of the Second Servile War in Sicily…
Manius Aquilius
262
Making Romes first negotiation with Parthia…
Sulla
263
What two kings did Manius Aquilius…
(“…restore”) Nicomedes III and Ariobarzanes (maybe Tigranes tho)
264
Who massacred 80,000…
(“…Italian residents”) Mithridates VI (Asiatic Vespers)
265
What port city of Athens…
Piraeus
(“…did Mithridates VI occupy”)
266
What Athenian agent of Mithridates VI…
Aristion
(“…led a resolution against an unpopular oligarchy helping Mithridates VI win over Athens”)
267
Repeating Eumenes’s maneuver at Magnesia by putting the enemy to flight with a well timed cavalry charge…
Sulla (at Orchomemus)
268
At what two sites did Sulla defeat Mithridates VI in the first Mithridatic war…
Chaeroneia and Orchomenus
269
Because Sulla claimed he had secret orders to turn against him, who was killed in a mutiny led by Gaius Flavius Fimbria…
L. Valerius Flaccus
270
Landing at Brundisium…
Sulla
271
Raising three of his father’s old legions at Picenum…
Pompey
272
Cinna sent Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gaius Norbanus to stop what man’s advanced upon Rome…
Sulla
273
Along with Crassus and Pompey, who met with Sulla in 83 BC as he returned to Italy…
Metellus Pius (son of Metellus Numidicus)
274
Despite a check sustained by him near Clusium, who…
Sulla
(“…marched northward cornering Carbo”)
275
Even with the aid of 70,000 Samnites…
Carbo / Colline Gate
276
What name is shared by a Numidian chieftain who supplanted Gauda’s son, Hiempsal II…
Iarbas (“…and an African suitor in the Aeneid”)
277
What son of Gauda…
Hiempsal II
278
What son in law of Cinna…
received support from the Numidian chieftain Iarbas…
Gn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (“…but was still quickly overrun by Pompey in 80 BC”)
279
Appointed *interrex*, what man, who was consul with Marius in 100 BC, revived the obsolete office of dictator…
L. Valerius Flaccus (when he passed the *Lex Valeria*, helping Sulla)
280
A marriage to Metella, the widow of Aemilius Scaurus, and the praetorship of 97…
Sulla (helped him get consul in 88)
281
Introducing 300 new members to the Senate and providing that seats should be assigned, *ex officio*, to all ex-quaestors…
Sulla
282
Depriving tribunal powers…
Sulla
283
Reviving the *Lex Villia Annalis*…
Sulla
284
Because he stood for the consulship of 82 BC against Sulla’s regulation, what distinguished officer was unceremoniously put to death…
Q. Lucretius Ofella (Afella)
285
After this general returned from African, who did Sulla deny a triumph…
Pompey
286
Consul of 78 BC…
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (father of Lepidus the triumvir)
287
Having made war on the Thracian Odrysae, what governor of Macedon was condemned by Augustus…
Marcus Primus (around 24-23 BC)
288
What law of 5 AD…
*Lex Valeria Cornelia*
(“…set up a committee of 10 men/centuries who elected the consuls and praetors”)
289
Because he had vowed at Philippi, what temple was created to average Caesar…
Temple of Mars Ultor (built by Augustus)
290
What emperor built a temple to Apollo on the Palatine…
Augustus
291
What ambitious aedile created the office of *praefectus vigilum* to regulate his fire brigade…
Marcus Egnatius Rufus (under Augustus)
292
To patrol the country districts, what emperor created a special force of *carabinieri*…
Augustus
293
What Augustan age marriage law, passed in 18 BC…
*Lex Julia* (*de maritandis ordinibus* or possibly *de adulteriis coercendis*)
294
Passing a law that encouraged married in the empire, what two consuls of 9 AD…
Marcus Papius and Quintus Poppaeus (passed the *lex Papia Poppaea*)
295
What two Augustan age laws were passed against the indiscriminate emancipation of slaves…
*lex Fufia Caninia* (2 BC) and the *lex Aelia Sentia* (4 AD)
296
What law of 2 BC…
*lex Fufia Caeninia* (limited testamentary manumission) (passed against the indiscriminate emancipation of slaves)
297
What law of 4 AD…
*lex Aelia Sentia* (limited manumission *inter vivos*) (passed against the indiscriminate emancipation of slaves)
298
What law of 17 BC or 19 AD…
*lex Julia Norbana*
(Put a check upon emancipation of slaves without fulfilment of the proper formalities) (to evade the tax on manumissions)
299
What tribune of 139 BC…
Aulus Gabinius (passed the *Lex Gabinia (tabalaria)* of 139 which substituted the old way of voting by open declaration to ballots at electoral assemblies) (*tabalaria*=ballot law)
300
What tribune of 137 BC…
Lucius Cassius Longinus (passed the *lex Cassia (tabalaria)* which extended the ballot to judicial assemblies of the people) (*tabalaria*=ballot law)
301
First over the walls of Carthage…
Tiberius Gracchus (during the Third Punic War) (received a *corona muralis*)
302
Diophanes and Blossius of Cumae…
Tiberius Gracchus (Diogenes Greek) (Blossius a Stoic philosopher)
303
In Sicily in 135 BC, who did the servile population…
(Syrian) Eunus and (Cilician) Cleon
304
The uprising in Sicily and fall of Numantia led what pretender to led a revolt of Pergamene serfs…
Aristonicus (or Eumenes III)
305
A different schism than Arius, what Bishop of Carthage...
Donatus
306
Fleeing to the Caucasus…
Mithridates VI
307
What half sister of Constantine…
Constantia (married Licinius), Eutropia (married Virius Nepotianus), Anastasia (married Bassianus)
308
Who gave silver tipped weapons to Gladiators…
Julius Caesar (“…and set up statues of Marius… gaining popular favor”)
309
Who’s breastplate at Prima Porca…
Augustus
310
Resetting land in Asia Minor to the pirates…
Pompey
311
What governor of Syria was charged with extortion…
A. Gabinius
312
Who restored Antiochus XIII to the throne of Seleucia…
Pompey (before Jewish stuff)
313
After Colline gate, what Etruscan…
Voluterrae (either got starved out or didn’t)
314
Making it the 10th province, what region did Sulla annex…
Cisalpine Gaul
315
What former Governor of Egypt…
Gaius Turranius
316
What man, who was supplied with troops from Lucius Cassius…
Manius Aquilius
317
The term “*Latini Iuniani*”…
Freedmen
318
What two tribes were massacred by Caesar in 55 BC…
Usipetes & Tencteri
319
What river, by a passage near the Lorelei Rock, was crossed by tressle-bridges constructed in 10 days…
Rhine (by Caesar)
320
Who was confirmed as ethnarch…
John Hyrcanus
(“…after a 3 month siege by Pompey helped take power from his brother Aristobulus II”)
321
Who fled to Massilia…
Gaius Verus (“…after he plundered Sicily etc”)
322
Who brought back the goddess “Dea Dia”…
Augustus
323
Tiberius Gracchus brought forward a bill probably similar to one brought forward by what friend of Scipio Aemilianus…
Gaius Laelius
324
What father in law of Tiberius Gracchus…
Appius Claudius Pulcher (on land commission)
325
A famous jurist, a Princeps Senatus, and one of the wealthiest Romans were the supporters of what man…
Tiberius Gracchus (jurist being P. Mucius Scaevola) (Princeps Senatus being Appius Claudius Pulcher) (wealthy Roman being P. Licinius Crassus)
326
P. Licinius Crassus, P. Mucius Scaevola, and Appius Claudius Pulcher…
Tiberius Gracchus (these men were some of his big supporters)
327
Because he persisted in his constitutionally unconventional veto…
Marcus Octavius
328
Following solitary the distant and precedent of Gaius Flaminius…
who attempt to carry out a law without previous consultation of the Senate…
Tiberius Gracchus
329
Who led over-zealous senators out of the Temple of Fides…
Scipio Nasica (they then rushed to Tiberius Gracchus on the Capitol and clubbed him and some 300 of his supporters)
330
What consul of 132…
Publius Popillius
331
What tribune of 131 BC…
who had personal grievances against the censor Metellus Macedonicus, attempted to improve upon Nasica’s methods by hurling his enemy off the Tarpeian Rock…
Gaius Atinius (but his colleges intervened and no violence was committed)
Another tribune of 131 is Gaius Papirius Carbo
332
What father in law of Gaius Gracchus…
Publius Licinius Crassus (replaced T Gracchus on the land commission)
333
“If Tiberius intended to seize the state, he was killed justly”…
Scipio Aemilianus
334
What tribune of 126 BC…
passed a law, against which Gaius Gracchus spoke, to prevent non-citizens settling in Rome and to expel any who had done so…
Iunius Pennus
335
What consul of 125 BC…
Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (was sent off to Massilia to fight the Saluvii) (because he proposed that all allies who wished should receive Roman citizenship)
336
What Latin town in the Liris valley revolted in 125 BC…
Fregellae (was quickly put down since no other Latin towns joined her) (the inhabitants were moved and a colony was established at Fabrateria)
337
After the revolt of Fregellae, where was a colony established…
Fabrateria
338
As a public speaker who exerted power second only to that of Cicero…
Gaius Gracchus
339
Proposing that the colony should be named Junonia…
what fellow tribune of Gaius Gracchus…
Rubrius
340
Whose proposed legislation, counter to that of Gaius Gracchus, existed only on paper and would never be established…
Marcus Livius Drusus (the elder)
341
What cursed site, where hurricanes charged with the wrath of heaven had whirled away some of the trespassing boundary-marks and that “wolves” (presumably jackals) had grubbed up the rest and carried them far out of reach…
Carthage
(“…is the site where Gaius Gracchus was going to found Joninia despite these religious objections”)
342
What tribune opposed Gaius Gracchus and proposed the formal annulment of the *lex Rubria*…
Marcus Minucius Rufus
(“…by which the colony of Junonia was to be constituted”)
343
In order to oppose Minucius’s action, Gaius Gracchus unwisely gathered a group of friends whereupon whose servants was killed in a scuffle…
Lucius Opimius
(“…causing him to convince the senate to pass a *senatus consultum ultimum* against Gaius”)
344
“To see it that the republic take no harm”…
“…what action was taken by Lucius Opimius…”
*senatus consultum ultimum*
345
Occupying the Aventine, what important political figure’s followers (along with Marcus Fulvius Flaccus) were murdered…
Gaius Gracchus (by Lucius Opimius’s instructions)
346
After reducing the Ligurians after Marcus Fulvius Flaccus…
who established a small settlement (*castellum*) of Roman veterans at Aquae Sextiae (Aix) to protect Massilia…
Gaius Sextius Calvinus (fought the Ligurians around 124 BC, after Flaccus)
347
Pompo, Pinus, Calpus, Mamercus, and Pompinia
Numa Pompilius (his children)
348
Requiring an onion, human hair, and live pilchards, Jupiter gave a spell for controlling thunder and lightning to what king…
Numa Pompilius
349
The only record of their language being on a bronze tablet called the Tabula Veliterna, describes what Italic tribe…
Volscians
(“…Coriolanus…battle in 338 BC… lands occupied in 304 BC”)
350
A shower of stones from heaven fell on the Aelian hill…
Tullus Hostilius
(“…and a great voice from the sky denounced the transplanted people of Alba Longa for abandoning the ways of their ancestors, happened during what Roman king’s reign…”)
351
What king built the Senate house…
Tullus Hostilius
352
Adding the Aventine and Janiculum…
Ancus Marcius
353
The Cispius, Oppius, and Fagutal…
Esquiline (all peaks/or smaller hills on the hill)
354
What king built the Circus Maximus…
Tarquinius Priscus
355
As Ostia served Rome, Gravisca served what Etruscan city as a port…
Tarquinii
356
Driven from Corinth by the tyrant Cypselus…
Demaretus of Corinth (father of Tarq Priscus)
357
Knowledge about what Italian people came with the discovered of a book written on linen called the *Liber Linteus*…
Etruscans
(“…which was used as a wrapping for an Egyptian mummy”)
358
Both a captive prince of Corniculum and a slave, who became king…
Servius Tullius
359
As they were counted by their heads rather than by their possessions, what social class…
The *Capite Censi* (lowest of the 5 classes) (classes defined by Servius Tullius when he censused)
360
361
Bringing in the Quirinal, Viminal, and Esquiline hills into the city…
Servius Tullius (he even moved to the Esquiline)
362
Arruns interpreted his father’s actions of swinging his stick at the tallest poppies as disposing of what town’s leading men…
Gabii
363
What *Tribunus Celerum*…
Lucius Julius **Brutus**
364
Choosing between his family and his principles, who executed his own sons Titus and Tiberius…
Lucius Julius **Brutus**
(“…on the ground of conspiracy”)
365
“If I abide by my oath, I alone shall suffer disaster, but if I break it, the whole city will be involved” was said by…
Marcus Atilius Regulus (before he returns to the Carthaginians)
366
What Roman general defeated the Sabellians before capturing Brundisium…
Atilius Regulus (during his first consulship in 267 BC)
367
A gold medallion found in Arras…
Constantius Chlorus (the words on the medallions are *Redditor Lucis Aeternae*)
368
According to Diodorus Siculus, whose wife tortured two Punic prisoners to death to revenge her husband…
Atilius Regulus (who according to Polybius just died in captivity of natural causes) (The legend of Regulus was perhaps invented to explain this woman’s barbaric behaviour)
369
Regaining his pride but not losing his nickname, what Roman general had 220 new ships placed in his hands which he used to surround and breach the Sicilian city of Panormus…
Scipio Asina (who gained his cognomen for his defeat at Lipari islands) (because he was trash Hannibal Gisgo gave him back to the Romans in a trade, but Romans had dogged determination and believed Asina had something to prove)
370
Attempting to use his consular position to force the Romans to appoint one Claudius Glicia (the son of one of his former slaves), who was later charged with *perduellio* because of his incompetence and sacrilege…
Appius Claudius Pulcher (because of Drepana) (Claudius famously said “Well, let them drink” before throwing the birds overboard, making them the first casualties of the battle)
371
What women, after returning home from the games some years after her brother’s death, found them slow going and loudly remarked that it was a pity that her brother Publius was not alive to lose another fleet…
Claudia (who was heavily fined for this)
(“…since the Roman plebs was evidently in need of further culling/slaughtering”)
372
373
Suggesting wisdom, care, and shrewdness, what consul of 242’s cognomen has the same root as “cautious”…
Gaius Lutatius Catulus
374
A denarius of Gaius Considinus Nonianus was thought to show a temple at what hill in Sicily, the sight of a battle in 247 BC…
Eryx (the temple shown was Venus Erycina)
375
What year had interesting religious problems. As one consul was a priest of Mars and as such was forbidden to leave the city. And the other consul intended to consult the oracle at Praeneste concerning his naval campaign to end a war, but as consul of Rome could only deal with the gods of the city…
242 (first consul is Albinus) (the latter is Gaius Lutatius Catulus)
376
Who took a sever wound in the thigh…
while he was personally involved in the fighting when closing off the Carthaginian ports that were supplying Drepanum, Lilybaeum, and Mt Eryx…
Gaius Lutatius Catulus (Mt Eyrx notably under command of Hamilcar Barca)
377
The Cornelians were the last to abandon what funeral practice in 78 BC…
Burying the body (called inhumation)
378
Because Lutatius Catulus suffered from a thigh wound, what colleague of Catulus (an ex-praetor and future consul) commanded the ships at sea, granting himself a triumph too…
Valerius Falto
379
Fighting in the North during the social war…
Rutilius Lupus (Roman) against Poppaedius Silo (Marsian) (Marsi notably in the North)
380
Fighting the the south during the Social War…
Lucius Julius Caesar (Roman) against Gaius Papius Mutilus (Samnite)
(Samnite=South, both start with S)
(L. JC eventually replaced with L. Cornelius Sulla)
381
Who took Phraaspa…
Mark Antony
(“…during his Atropatene campaign…”)
382
When Cicero said some men were “made consuls in their cradles” who specifically could be described this way…
Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger
383
Who was the mother of Marcus Livius Drusus the younger…
A Cornelia
384
What uncle of Marcus Livius Drusus the younger was consul in 105 BC…
…served with Metellus Numidicus in Africa
Rutilius Rufus (other consul of 105 BC is Mallius Maximus) (Servillius Caepio is proconsul)
385
Who arrogantly did not wear his official insignia in Asia, claiming “I am my own insignia”…
M. Livius Drusus the younger
386
What emperor’s burial was marked by an eclipse of the sun…
Nerva
387
“*inde Berzobim, deinde Aizi processimus*” are the only 5 words that remain from what emperor’s Dacian Chronicle…
Trajan
388
Winning a battle at Dura-Europus…
Avidius Cassius (battle in 165 AD in modern Syria)
389
What judge and former censor was famous for his use of the question “*Cui bono*” (“to whose advantage”)…
L. Cassius Longinus (he imported the methods of the Star Chamber into this trial, and so procured the condemnation of three Virgins on a charge of unchasity)
390
Who was a member of the *haute noblesse* who combined an appearance of old-fashion *gravitas* with an open mind for political novelties…
Aemilius Scaurus
391
What half Persian half Greek accepted a call for help from the Greek cities of the Crimea…
Mithridates VI
392
Declaring war on the Thracian Bessi…
M. Junius Brutus
393
What proconsul of 43 BC…
M. Junius Brutus
394
What 4th century emperor born in or near Naissus (Nǐs or Nish)…
Constantine I The Great (was then the Balkan province of Moesia, lager Dardania, and now Serbia) (born 272/273)
395
What woman, the (step) daughter of Maximian…
was Constantius Chorlus’ second wife…
Theodora
396
What son of Eutropia…
Maxentius (the Eutropia wife of Maximian)
or
Nepotianus (the Eutropia wife of Nepotianus elder and one of the 3 half sisters of Constantine I)
397
What husband of Theodora…
Constantius Chorlus / Justinian (I)
398
Who was in a good mood after dinner and gave Constantine a pass to use the imperial posting system (*cursus publicus*) to go wherever he wanted allowing him to rejoin with his father in the middle of the night…
Galerius
(page 421 top left of Heich)
399
July 25…
(“…306 AD saw the death of what emperor”)
Constantius Chlorus
400
Who divorced his first wife Minervina…
(“…in order to marry Maximian’s daughter Fausta”)
Constantine I The Great
(Mother of Crispus)
401
In April of 308 AD, where did Galerius summon a meeting with Diocletian…
Carnuntum
(Dio refused to resume power, Maximian forced to retire, and Maxentius condemned as a usurper)
402
In place of Hercules, he adopted as his patron deity the Unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus)…
(“…and announced his descent from the renowned Claudius Gothicus”)
Constantine I The Great
403
Stating it was better for the Empire if people practiced some religion than none at all…
Galerius
404
What objects, struck in 315 AD shows the emperor with the Christogram on his helmet, the Roman she-wolf on his shield, and a cruciform-headed scepter in his hand…
Gold medallions (which represent a blending of typical Roman and Christian symbolism)
405
What emperor instructed all of the following: to furnish Caecilianus (the newly elected bishop of Carthage) funds for distribution among the orthodox bishops and clergy in Africa, Numidia, and Mauretania…
Constantine I The Great
(“…and instructed his proconsul in Africa to restore to the churches all confiscated property”)
(Bishop Caecilianus under Constantine I)
406
The long awaited marriage of Licinius and Constantia took place at what conference of 313 AD…
Conference of Milan
(Licinius and Constantine I also reached agreements and passed the Edict of Milan here)
407
As Constantine I departed for Gaul to repel a Frankish invasion…
who had an excellent opportunity to attack Licinius…
and (in the dead of winter) crossed the Bosphorus and captured Byzantium…
Maximinus Daia
(“…before he was defeated at Adrianople and/or Tzirallum where he then disguised himself as a slave and fled to Asia Minor where he fell ill and died probably at Tarsus by probably by suicide by poison)
408
To what brother of Licinius did Constantine I give his half sister Anastasia to in marriage…
Bassianus
(“…before he was executed by Constantine I as his plot of assassinating him was discovered… war with Licinius soon followed in 316 AD”)
(This Marriage in 315)
409
Because of the election of Caecilianus as metropolitan bishop of Carthage…
Donatist Schism / Donatus / Donatists / possibly Constantine I
(This Schism started 313, and in 321 Constantine I stopped his persecution of Donatists and left them “to the judgement of God”)
410
Arguing that Christ was not “of the same substance” (*homoousios*) as God the Father but “of different substance” (*heteroousios*)…
Arius
(This was the Arian view during the Arian heresy)
(the opposing view was that of Bishop Alexander of Alexandria who argued the Son was of the same substance of the Father)
411
An appeal by Constantia led Constantine to spare what man for only 6 months…
Licinius
(“…before he executed him while he was in exile at **Thessalonica**”)
412
The only one of Constantine’s half-siblings to survive the purges after Constantine’s death…
Eutropia
(Was married to the respected senator Virius Nepotianus)
(Her son Nepotianus, however, did not survive even a month as emperor in 350 before he was killed by the usurper Magnentius)
413
Declaring Christ *homoousios*, proclaiming the Trinity invisible, excommunicating Arius, and fixing the date of Easter were all…
Council of Nicaea
(325 AD)
414
Who claimed to be *Isapostolos* (Equal of the Apostles) and the elected servant of God…
Constantine I the great
415
What emperor created a stable gold *solidus*…
Constantine I the great (even though Diocletian also created one? Ig his want stable)
416
Increasing the size of the *comitatus* and establishing the *protectores* and *Scholae Paltinae*…
Constantine I The Great
417
Scalded in a hot bath in 326 AD what empress…
Fausta (after Helena revealed she committed adultery with a slave, or something)
418
Who created Rome’s first tax on business, the *collatio lustralis* or *chrysargyron*…
Constantine I The Great
419
Who removed the statue of Apollo from Delphi and ransacked temples and shrines to beautify his new city…
Constantine I The Great
(“…Constantinople”)
420
Whose visit to the hot springs of Helenopolis failed to cure him…
Constantine I the Great
(“…which led him to ask Bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia to baptise him before he died”)
(Constantine died while still arrayed in the white robes of a Christian neophyte)
421
What two nephews of Constantine I survived the purges…
Gallus and Julian
422
Name each son of Constantine I and which part of the empire they received…
Constantine II (337-340) - the West
Constans (337-350) - Italy, Africa, and Illyricum
Constantius II (337-361) - the East
423
In 350 AD, what high-ranking officer of British and Frankish ancestry overthrew and executed Constans…
Magnentius
(Constantius II then defeated Magnentius in a series of battles starting in 351, and Magnentius committed suicide in 353)
424
Who created the empire wide office of *defensor civitatis*, an ombudsman, whose duty was to protect citizens from arbitrary officials…
Valentinian I
(This was to protect the poor, ensure justice, and prevent fiscal abuse)
425
Who was executed in 376 when powerful men at the western court turned against him after he put down a revolt by Firmus in Africa…
Theodosius the Elder (father of emperor)
426
What usurper had the support of the empress Faustina…
Procopius (revolted 365-366, after this Faustina disappears) (Procopius is a relative of Julian’s mother apparently)
427
Gratian’s stepmother Justina and a Frankish general Merobaudes were regents of what…
Valentinian II
428
Confiscating the endowments of the Vestal Virgins and ancient priestly colleges…
Gratian
(He also removed the Altar of Victory and renounced the title of *pontifex maximus*)
429
In 383 AD who was proclaimed emperor in Britain and killed Gratian…
Magnus Maximus
430
In 388 AD, Theodosius I’s general Arbogast recovered Gaul from what father and son…
Magnus Maximus and Victor
431
Because he was a barbarian, who did Arbogast place as a puppet in the west after Valentinian II was hanged…
Eugenius
432
In 181 BC, what pro-Roman statesman of the Achaean League…
Callicrates
(“…advised the Senate to support the pro-Roman at the expense of the patriotic parties in various cities”)
433
What dictator of Corinth…
Critolaus
(He tried to challenge Roman authority but was easily routed by Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus and saw L. Mummius saxk Corinth)
434
From 209-204 BC, whose victorious progress across Persia and Bactria to the Indian frontier earned him the title of “Great”…
Antiochus III the Great (of Syria)
435
After the death of his father who moved the pawn cities of Smyrna and Lampsacus…
Eumenes II
436
Not jeopardising his recent gains, who patiently argued with Flamininus’ agents at Lysimachia…
Antiochus III the Great
437
Where did Antiochus III argue his case with Flamininus’ agents…
Lysimachia (on the Gallipoli peninsula)
438
Whose marriage to Laodice…
Perseus
439
What daughter of the Syrian king Seleucus IV…
Laodice (married Perseus)
440
What sister of the Syrian king Seleucus IV…
Apame (married Prusias II Bithynia)
441
What king of Bithynia married Apame…
Prusias II
(“…and had Hannibal flee to him” or something)
442
Landing on Demetrias off the Gulf of Pagasae…
Antiochus III
443
Who succeeded Antiochus III as king Seleucia…
Seleucus IV (“…before this guy married his daughter Laodice to Perseus and his sister Apame to Prusias II)
444
Carrying on his father’s feud with Macedon…
Eumenes II (father is Attalus I who allied with Rome against Philip in 1st Macedonian war)
445
Where did Perseus defeat…
P. Licinius Crassus…
Larissa (“…in 171 BC”) (after this surprising victory Perseus offered peace terms but Romans rejected)
446
After a failed endeavour to enter the valley of the **Haliacmon** by the Volustana pass across the frontier range…
Hostilius Mancinus
(“…was consul of 170 BC and was a Roman general against Perseus during the 3th Macedonian War”) (he was between P Licinius Crassus —171— and Q Marcius Philippus —169— as generals and consuls)
447
Who made an 11 day successful march across (the wooded shoulder of) Mt Olympus…
Q Marcius Philippus (consul of 169 BC) (fought in 3rd Macedonian War after P Licinius Crassus and Hostilius Mancinus)
(Consul in 91 BC is Lucius not Quintus)
448
Q. Marcius Philippus, P. Licinius Crassus, Hostilius Mancinus, and Aemillius Paulus…
Perseus of Macedon / 3rd Macedonian War
(All Roman commanders who fought in this war against Perseus)
449
What city, which rendered no effective aid to Perseus, suffered a military execution at the hands of Aemilius Paulus
…and saw 150,000 of their people sold into slavery
Epirus (this is in 167 BC. One year after the Romans captured the Illyrian Genthius)
450
After its king was sent into exile to Alba Fucens, what region was split into 4 separate republics…
Macedon / Macedonian
(Following the 3rd Macedonian war and the execution at Epirus in 167)
451
In 148 BC, who expelled a pretender from the Macedonian throne…
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus
452
What road was constructed after the 4th Macedonian War…
Via Egnatia (ran from Apollonia to Thessalonica)
453
Where did Polyxenidas defeat...
Samos
(only victory for Polyxenidas)
(Poly was defeated at Cape Corycus before and Side after)
454
Where did the Rhodian Eudamus defeat...
Side (190 BC)
("...the numerically stronger Pheonician navy under Hannibal")
455
Where did Gaius Livius and Eumenes II defeat Polyxenidas in 191 BC...
Cape Corcyrus
(same year as Thermopylae)
456
The last notable victory of a Roman fleet over a foreign enemy...
where did Eudamus and L. Aemilius Regillus...
Myonnesus
("...defeat Polydenidas in 190/189 BC")
457
During the Seleucid war, where did Gnaeus Domitius Aheobarbus, Scipio Asina, and Eumenes II...
Magnesia (ad-Sipylum)
("...defeat Antiochus III in 190/189 BC, being the last battle in the war")
458
Prevented by an illness from directing the battle, what famous Roman general would have led forces at Magnesia...
Scipio Africanus
459
Joined with 10 senatorial commissioners, who signed the treaty of Apamea…
Manlius Vulso
(188 BC, Seleucid war treaty)
460
Letting him off with only a fine, what king of Cappadocia had sent a contingent to assist Antiochus at Magnesia…
Ariarathes (of Cappadocia)
461
Before his death, whose court did Hannibal find shelter in…
Prusias I
(Not the second one)
462
What competent vizier and *praefectus praetorio* was executed by Commodus in 185 BC…
Perennis
(Executed on charge of treason and the freemen Cleander was given power)
463
Modeling off of Vespasian’s *classis Alexandrina*…
Commodus
(“…who instituted a regular service of ships to convey the produce of Africa to Rome”)
464
What tribune of the Praetorian Gaurd…
Cassius Chaerea
465
With the help of his *frumentarii*…
Commodus
(“…who used his secret police to misrule as emperor”)
466
Pompeianus Quintianus…
Commodus (or Lucilla)
(Quintianus and Commodus’ sister Lucilla attempted to assassinate the emperor in 182 AD) (the praetorian Paternus was disposed of)
467
Who was pelted with stones by the urban proletariat…
Didius Julianus
468
Who was pelted with roof tiles…
Saturninus
469
Who was pelted with turnips…
Vespasian
470
What chamberlain of Commodus…
Eclectus (helped in Commodus’ assassination) / Saoterus (a Bithynia Greek freeman)
471
What rival of Didius Julianus was governor of Britain…
Clodius Albinus
472
What rival of Didius Julianus was governor of Pannonia…
Septimius Severus
473
What rival of Didius Julianus was governor in Syria…
Gaius Pescennius Niger
474
Stationed at Carnuntum…
Septimius Severus
475
What province did Septimius Severus…
Syria
(He divided it into 2 provinces: Coele and Phoenice)
476
What emperor invaded Adiabene and made a formal peace with Parthia…
Septimius Severus
477
Who established the Roman province of Osrhoene with its capital at Nisibis…
Septimius Severus
478
During the reign of Septimius Severus, what Parthian king…
Vologeses IV
479
Towards the end of what emperor’s reign did Virius Lupus…
defeat the Caledonians and the Maeatae…
Septimius Severus
480
During the reign of Septimius Severus, what governor defeated the Caledonians and the Maeatae…
Virius Lupus
481
In what province did Virius Lupus defeat the Maeatae…
**Britannia**
482
In 205, who started repairing Hadrian’s wall…
Lucius Alfenus Senecio
483
During what emperor’s reign did L. Alfenus Senecio repair Hadrian’s wall…
Septimius Severus
484
Who captured Leotini…
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
(During 2nd Punic war)
485
On November 27th…
Lex Titia / Gainas kills Rufinus
486
Who surrounded himself with Isaurian bodyguards…
Leo I Thrax
(“…and married his daughter Ariadne to Zeno as he worked to weaken Aspar”)
487
Who installed the younger Anthemius as emperor in the West…
Leo I Thrax
488
Along with Anthemius, who led a massive joint expedition to North Africa…
against the Gaiseric the Vandal king in 467…
Leo I Thrax
(The expedition failed which weakened Zeno and gave Aspar more boldness)
489
Lured by Leo and Zeno in 471 AD, what man and his sons were led into the palace where the emperor’s eunuchs ambushed them…
Aspar
(Only one son died. The other was captured and allowed to live)
490
Using Aspar’s murder as an excuse, what Ostrogoth…
Theoderic Strabo
(“…demanded appointment in place of Aspar and then ravaged Thrace until Leo reached a compromise”) (the compromise being Strabo received Aspar’s old post, and the Ostrogoths received a subsidy of 2000 pounds of gold a year)
491
Whose reign saw a revolt by Verina and Theoderic Strabo (the widow of Leo I and an Ostrogothic king, respectively)…
Zeno
(Verina = widow of Leo, maybe good to know)
492
What rival Ostrogoth of Theoderic Strabo did Zeno adopted and send to fight Strabo in Thrace…
Theoderic the Amal
(The Amal tried to turn Strabo against Zeno)
493
Who did Zeno finally come to an agreement with and authorize to overthrow Odovacer in Italy…
Theoderic the Amal
(After this Zeno had the last 3 years of his reign free of foes)
494
With religious sects of Coptic and Jacobite, what denomination of Christianity was pacified by Zeno’s *Henotikon*…
Monophysites
495
A *silentarius* of the Sacred Consistory…
Anastasius (491-518 AD)
(He’s a Monophysite)
(Ariadne, Leo I’s daughter and Zeno’s first wife, married Anastasius after Zeno’s death)
496
Between 502-506, what Persian king did Anastasius…
King Kawad I (Kavadh, Kavades, Cawades, Qawad)
(Fought him to a draw and gained a peace)
497
What emperor built the Long Wall…
Anastasius
498
Whose reign saw a rebellion by the pro-Chalcedonian count of the federates in Thrace Vitalian…
Anastasius
(This was between 511-515)
499
Who abolished the *chrysargyron* which was begun by Constantine I…
Anastasius
500
Before he could get to Sicily, who died at Consentia (modern Consensa)…
Alaric
(“…leading his followers to divert the Busentus River and bury him underneath so that his final resting place could never be desecrated”)
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