CLAS240-02/HIST230-05 Roman History
Dr. Kristian Lorenzo
Romulus-Justinian
Fall 2015
Reading Worksheet 9
Assignment for Tues.:
Read Martin, Ch. 9 p. 168-189
Terms/names:
Important names/terms to look out for in the reading (and to be able to define/identify on quizzes
and exams):
Diocletian, 284-305
Pagani (“country bumpkins”)
Constantine, 306-337
Hypatia
Dominus (“master”)
Judaism
The Dominate
Bishops
The Tetrarchy
Pope
Dominus et deus (“master and god”)
Arianism
Edict of Maximum Prices
Arius of Alexandria
Taxation “in kind”
Council of Nicaea
Curiales (“unsalaried city council members”)
Donatism
The Great Persecution
Augustine
Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312
City of God
Arch of Constantine
Ascetism
Edict of Milan, 313
Doctrine of Original Sin
The Lord’s Day (Sunday)
Monasticism
Porphyry
Antony (aka St. Antony)
Julian, 361-363
Basil (“the Great”) of Caesarea
Symmachus
Benedict of Nursia
Theodosius, 379-395
The Benedictine Rule
Questions to consider for class discussion and/or quizzes and exams:
1. What system of government replaced the Principate? What were its major characteristics?
2. What were Diocletian’s political reforms? How successful were they? What were their
intended social consequences?
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CLAS240-02/HIST230-05 Roman History
Dr. Kristian Lorenzo
Romulus-Justinian
Fall 2015
3. What were Diocletian’s financial reforms? How successful were they? What were their
unintended social consequences?
5. What was the major pressure facing the wealthy local elites of the empire? Why did it increase
during the 3rd century and then increase even more during the Dominate? What was the range of
responses these local elites employed to deal with this pressure?
6. Who initiated the Great Persecution? Why and what were its consequences?
7. Please discuss the importance of the Edict of Milan. Why was it both realistic and shrewd
politically?
8. On what grounds did prominent polytheists insist that Christians had no right to claim sole
possession of religious truth? Do you think these reasons are persuasive? If yes, why? If no, why
not?
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CLAS240-02/HIST230-05 Roman History
Dr. Kristian Lorenzo
Romulus-Justinian
Fall 2015
9. How did Christian emperors chip away at the practice of traditional religion?
10. Please discuss the role(s) available to women in Christianity during the 3rd and 4th centuries
AD. How did they change from earlier periods and why?
11. Please discuss Augustine’s contributions to establishing the western church’s orthodoxy as
religious truth. Provide a number of examples. Where can his influence still be felt today.
12. How was Christian monasticism distinctive from earlier forms? And please discuss two
different types of Christian monasticism noting their similarities and differences.
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