The Roman Empire IV

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1. After Domitian was murdered, the senate appointed the elderly Nerva to the office of princeps. Nerva had dismissed the praetorian prefect Titus Petronius Secundus - one of the chief conspirators against Domitian, and replaced him with a former commander. Who was this? Publius Cornelius Nigrinus Cispius Daelianus Parthenius Casperius Aelianus

2. Where was Nerva born? Aosta, Italy Narni, Italy Italica, Spain Samarobriva, Germany

3. Nerva died in 98 AD after a relatively short reign. Everyone agrees that the best thing he did was his choice of heir. Where was his succesor born? Athens, Greece Lugdunensis, Gaul Italica, Hispania Narni, Italy

4. One of the following historians claims Trajan was a pederast (that is, had a sexual relationship with an adolescent boy). Which of these was it? Tacitus Dio Cassius Adrianus Belus Heto the Greek

5. Trajan's most famous war was the one with Dacia. Who was the last Dacian king at the time? Burebista Decebalus Cotiso Tzuran

6. Which city was later renamed after Trajan, thus getting the nomen Trajanopolis? Hatra near Mosul Bursa in Asiana Jeriho in Judea Selinus in Cilicia

7. Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus was to succeed Trajan. Yet his succesion wasn't swift. Trajan probably never named an heir but his wife claimed that on his death bed he uttered the words "Aelius Caesar" referring to Hadrian as emperor. What was the name of Trajans wife? Domitia Paulina Aurelia Galeria Lucilla Faustina the Elder Pompeia Plotina

8. What were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece called? Persephone Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries Demeter Mysteries Hadrian Mysteries

9. While in Anatolia Hadrian met a young boy who was destined to become the his eromenos — his pederastic beloved. What was the boy's name? Nazenus Antinous Bastius Lepistius

10. Hadrian died in 138 on 10th July in his villa at Baiae at age 62. However, the man who had spent so much of his life traveling had not yet reached his journey's end. He was buried first at Puteoli, near Baiae, on an estate which had once belonged to Cicero. Soon after, his remains were transferred to Rome and buried in the Gardens of Domitia, close by the almost-complete mausoleum. Upon the completion of the Tomb of Hadrian in Rome in 139 by his successor Antoninus Pius, his body was cremated, and his ashes were placed there together with those of his wife Vibia Sabina and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who also died in 138. Antoninus also had him deified in 139 and given a temple on the Campus Martius. True False