Ancient Roman Art

Republican Roman art depicted 

• realistic subjects
• portraits
• celebration of age and character
• all of these

Greek art was championed during the reign of

• Caesar in the Roman Republic
• Augustus, the emperor
• Pliny the Elder
• Constantine

Virgil wrote the Aeneid for

• Julius Caesar
• Augustus
• Trajan
• Constantine 

Which of the following was NOT associated with the founding of Rome?

• Aeneas
• Romulus
• Virgil
• Remus

The Goths were

• Gauls
• Germans
• Trojans
• Greeks

Roman concrete was a mixture of

• water, tufa, travertine, & rubble
• tufa, rubble, gravel, mud
• water, mortar, gravel, & rubble
• stucco, plaster, water, & rubble

Which was NOT a Roman architectural type?

• the Colosseum
• the circus
• the peripteral temple
• the private house

Pompeii was destroyed in

• 79 A.D.
• the first century B.C.
• under Nero
• 121 A.D.

Which of the following was NOT built under Trajan?

• Dacia
• basilica
• a forum
• Timgad

Nero, as described by Suetonius, exemplifies

• generosity
• grandiosity
• military strategy
• political know-how