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Omnibus 1 Primary
Omnibus 1 Primary Second Semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jocasta | The mother of Oedipus, former wife of Laius, marries Oedipus and fulfills the Oracle. Theban trilogy |
| Oedipus | The main character in Theban Trilogy, kills his father, marries his mother, fulfills the oracle of Apollo. Teacher was Aeschalus. |
| Laius | The father of Oedipus, married to Jocasta, is killed by Oedipus, he tried to kill Oedipus when he was a baby. |
| Aeneas | The main character in the The Aeneid. Trojan. similar to the Odyssey. Adulterer. traveled for 7 years. |
| Patrician | means well fathered, wealthy individuals who traced their lineage from the first senators under the reign of the kings. |
| Consuls | The first rulers following the reign of the kings |
| Decemvir | Ten men granted absolute power to govern |
| Dictator | allowed to rule temporarily for up to six months due to an emergency |
| Lictor/Lector | attendant of a magistrate or consul, serving as his personal bodyguard and policeman. |
| Plebian | common people. Or anybody who was not descended from the lineage of kings. |
| Praetor | administrator and judge, possessor of the imperium. |
| Quaestor | Treasury official |
| Tribune | Elected to represent the commoners, initially two, then five, then ten. |
| Julius Caesar | the first Caesar, he was not an emperor, he was a governor, dictator, consul. He was very messed up and he was the uncle of Augstus |
| Luke | the author of Luke and Acts, was not one of the twelve disciples, traveled with Paul on several missionary journeys. |
| Euthyphro | Took his father to court for murder, questioned by Socrates about honoring your parents, He is concerned about the pollution of the minds of the youth. |
| The Fabii | A family who came together to become volunteers for a standalone army. |
| Coriolaunus | AKA, Caius Marcius, Rose to prominence, distinguished patrician. Defended someone. |
| The Volscians | Rebels that rebelled because of the price of grain was too high. |
| Secession of the Plebs | When the plebs couldn't handle being slaves to the Patres they seceeded and won. |
| Creon | The smart dude who could interpret the prophecies from Apollo. |
| Teiresias | The dead Theban prophet from the underworld, in the Odyssey and in the Theban Trilogy. |
| Antigone | The daughter of Oedipus, was his most faithful child. Went everywhere with him and took care of him. After he died, she went back and found her brother and gave him a proper burial and was killed because of it. |
| Ismene | The other faithful daughter of Oedipus. She tried to warn Antigone not to go bury their brother and what would happen, but she couldn't stop Antigone. |
| Crito | The guy who gave Socrates the choice to escape prison or commit suicide with poison. Socrates chose suicide. In the book Last Days of Socrates. |
| Euthyphro's Dilemma | Friend of Socrates, introduced at the beginning, he takes his father to court for manslaughter. Tries to define holiness, but if what the gods decree is holy then what holiness is whatever the gods say. |
| Romulus | The founder of Rome, killed his brother, was raised by a wolf, named Rome after himself. |
| Remus | The brother of Romulus, Who was killed by his brother when he tried to take the throne for himself, Helped Romulus build Rome, also gather citizens. |
| Numa Pompillius | 2nd King of Rome, voted into power, deeply educated in the laws of God. Teacher = Pythagoras of Samos, introduced many religious practices, sought peace, wisdom from goddess nymph. Reigned 43 years. Thought to be a son of Zeus |
| Cincinattus | Roman farmer, dictator, and gained respect as a model Roman citizen. |
| Verginia | Was raped by Appius Claudius and then her father killed her |
| Lucretia | Was raped by Sextus Tarquinius Superbus and then she killed herself even though her husband and father told her she was innocent. |
| Brutus | The main conspirator and murderer of Julius Caesar, husband of Portia, loved Rome so much that he killed Caesar. |
| Sextus Tarquinius Superbus | A creep who pretended that Lucretia was the slave of him so that he could rape her and get away with it. This brought about the change in the government, they got rid of the kings. |
| Gaius Mucius | A nobleman who knew that it was wrong to have different classes and that everyone should be equal. |
| Appius Claudius | A creep! He raped Verginia and threatened to kill her and then kill a male servant and lie them together, had no kindness in his soul. |
| Camillus | 4th century B.C. Dictator, kicks out the Gauls, becomes a hero, uses stealth to conquer the Fabiians, rescued the Fabiian schoolboys, was elected tribune. Alienated himself from the people. |
| The Twelve Tables | Were written on 12 stone pillars, and they are the rules that were put into place when Rome was established. |
| The Gauls | They were like Nomads, they wandered around, and they pretty much just settled anywhere. They fought for the ground that they were on. |
| Creusa | wife of Aeneas at Troy, Ascanius's mother, dies in Troy |
| Anchises | Aeneas's Father. He was in the Aenead, dies and goes to the underworld, he ends up talking to Aeneas in the underworld about Elysium. |
| Ascanius | Son of Aeneas and Creusa, lives through the escape from Troy. |
| Dido | The woman who marries Aeneas in the Aenead, he leaves her and then she kills herself because she said she wouldn't love anybody ever again after her first husband was killed in battle. Sister of Anna. |
| Carthage | The city which was the favorite of Juno's, bent on revenge against Aeneas, was burned to the ground by Aeneas. |
| Juno | The top goddess in the Aenead, none to happy with Aeneas, favorite city is Carthage, Hera in Greek |
| Venus | Aphrodite in Greek, in the Aenead, a goddess who helps Aeneas and gets him away from the rage of Hera/Juno. Mother of Aeneas. |
| Amata | Queen of the Latins, Rome and the objects of marriage to Lavinia and Aeneas |
| Lavinia | Son of Latinus |
| Latinus | Father of Amata and father of Lavinia. Proved able to marry Amata and King of Latins and Rome. |
| Dis | The place in Hades where those who want to be reincarnated would want to go. Not everyone would be there, but there would be people who would live again in a different person. |
| Elysium | The place in Hades where the Greeks thought that it was like heaven. you don't have to do any work, but it's the good life. |
| The Sybill | the period of many gods, and a strong religious presence. |
| Vulcan | Greek Hephaestus, god, husband of Aphrodite, made the shield for Aeneas even though Aphrodite had an affair with someone Anchises to produce Aeneas. |
| Turnus | One of the gods in the Aenead, |
| Pallas | Another name for Athena, goddess of wisdom, helps Aeneas escape from Juno's wrath at Carthage, helped get him together with Dido. |
| Camilla | Roman General who held a Tuscan city under siege and refused to let it go |
| Nisus and Eryalus | kill many sleeping people, but flashes the helmet he was wearing and the other people are able to find him and capture and kill them. |
| Julius Caesar | The first Caesar, not an emperor, was a dictator, consul, decemvir and many other government officials, he was conspired against and was killed by Brutus and his cronies, for the good of Rome. |
| Calpurnia | Caesar's wife, warns him against the ides of March, doesn't want him to go out because she had a dream. |
| Octavian | The heir to the throne after Julius, and lives. |
| Cleopatra | The wife of Mark Antony. |
| Antony | The friend of Caesar, had no part in the murder of Julius Caesar, Brutus decided to spare him because he |
| Caligula | The fourth Caesar and third emperor of Rome. Full name was Caius Caesar Caligula. |
| Tiberius | He was the third Caesar, the second emperor. Descendants are Nero and Claudius. Major adulterer, cruel. |
| Nero | The 6th Caesar and the 5th emperor, the worst Caesar of them all, he used Christians as torches, used people for brutal games just for entertainment. he was a Sicko. |
| Vespasian | The 10th Caesar, 9th emperor, |
| Titus | The 11th Caesar, and 10th emperor, died on the 13th of September, reigned for 2 years and 2 months before he died. |
| Cassius | One of the conspirators against Caesar in Julius Caesar |
| Pompey | one of the friends of Ceasar, turned against him and then helped to murder Caesar. |
| Casca | Another conspirator against Julius Caesar |
| Cicero | In Julius Caesar, a senator, dies in Julius Caesar. |
| What prophecy are Laius and Jocasta given concerning their infant son? | The prophecy given them is that Oedipus will grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. |
| Why is Socrates going to court in the "Last Days of Socrates"? | Socrates is going to court because he is being charged with the making of new gods, and polluting the minds of the youth. |
| Why is Acts 1:8 the key verse in explaining the purpose of the book? | The book of Acts is all about different people taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. |
| According to Virgil, how did Aeneas come to Italy? Who is working against his mission? | He came from Troy to Carthage to Italy to help found Rome, and he came by a boat. Juno/Hera is against him. |
| How was Augustus able to bring frontier provinces under his control? | He was able to do this by offering Roman citizenship to everybody, but they had to honor Augustus as a god. |
| In Julius Caesar, how is the mob depicted when Caesar refuses the crown? | The mob is depicted as angry when, there on the lupercal Antony is presenting Caesar the crown of king and Caesar refuses it. |
| Who are the Eumenidies? Why is it fitting that Oedipus meet death in their sacred grove? | The Eumenides are the furies. They are the goddesses who take revenge on those who commit patricide or other family murder. |
| What are the arguments that Crito uses to attempt to convince Socrates to escape from prison? | Crito tries to get Socrates to escape prison because Crito says that you can live even more, and you can travel the world, and just live in exile from Socrates' hometown. |
| Why did Lucretia kill herself? | Lucretia kills herself because she was raped, and even though her husband and father told her it wasn't her fault, she felt guilty and then she stabbed herself with a dagger she had hidden in her dress. |
| What does Aeneas see in Elyusium with his father Anchises? | Aeneas and Anchises see many souls in Elyusium, waiting to be re-incarnated and live up in the upper world again. |
| Why does Brutus argue to spare Antony in Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? | Brutus agrees to spare Antony because somebody might suspect Brutus if Antony weren't spared. |
| In Julius Caesar, what eventually happens to Portia? How does Brutus handle it? | Portia kills herself, and Brutus is horrified and misses her. |
| From the first chapter of Revelation, does it seem that the coming of Christ being mentioned in the text is near in the future or far into the future? | It all depends. When John wrote it, God said, "Behold, I am coming soon." But God has his own time. 2 Peter 3:8-9 says so. |
| What does Antigone do? Why? | Antigone goes back and buries her brother because it is the right thing to do, and because she wants to bring her brother the honor of being buried. She doesn't care what it will mean for her, she does it anyway. |
| How does the world of Forms differ from the material world? | The world of forms differs from the material world because it isn't something that can be described. Joy and love are forms, you can't really describe them. Anything that we see is materialistic such as glass, computers, and guns. you can describe it. |
| What sort of dictator was Lucius Quinctius Cinncinatus? | He wasn't a very good one, he was a better consul than dictator. He just didnt' take it seriously. |
| What is the significance of Aeneas's shield? | The significance of Aeneas' shield is that it is like a piece of history. It has several different pictures and scenes from history. |
| According to Revelation 19 and 20, why does the Gospel make headway in the world? | the devil has been chained up, and can't deceive the nations. |
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