Trajan's Column - Quiz
A) A Roman triumphal column B) A triumphal arch C) A temple dedicated to Mars D) A Roman aqueduct
A) Julius Caesar's victory over Pompey B) Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars C) Augustus's victory in the Gallic Wars D) Marcus Aurelius's victory in the Marcomannic Wars
A) Agrippa B) Vitruvius C) Apollodorus of Damascus D) Rabirius
A) The Roman People B) The Praetorian Guard C) Emperor Hadrian D) The Roman Senate
A) Near the Colosseum B) In Trajan's Forum C) In the Campus Martius D) In the Roman Forum
A) 12 May 113 AD B) 101 AD C) 1587 AD D) 117 AD
A) Its massive bronze statue B) Its spiral bas relief C) Its height D) Its hidden treasury room
A) 50 metres (164 feet) B) 20 metres (66 feet) C) 35 metres (115 feet) D) 30 metres (98 feet)
A) Travertine limestone B) Red brick C) Granite blocks D) Carrara marble drums
A) 25 B) 15 C) 20 D) 10
A) 100 tons B) 32 tons C) 53.3 tons D) 10 tons
A) 100-metre (328-foot) B) 300-metre (984-foot) C) 250-metre (820-foot) D) 190-metre (620-foot)
A) 23 times B) 30 times C) 15 times D) 10 times
A) 300 steps B) 185 steps C) 250 steps D) 100 steps
A) An altar to Jupiter B) A water reservoir C) A secret burial chamber D) A viewing deck
A) 15 tons B) 100 tons C) 53.3 tons D) 32 tons
A) A statue of a bird, probably an eagle B) A statue of a lion C) A statue of a wolf D) A statue of Victory
A) A statue of Saint Peter B) A statue of Trajan C) A statue of Augustus D) A statue of an eagle
A) In antiquity B) In the 19th century C) During the Renaissance D) In the Middle Ages
A) Pope Sixtus V B) Pope Leo X C) Pope Julius II D) Pope Gregory XIII
A) Two sections of the Ulpian Library B) Two residential villas C) Two temples of the imperial cult D) Two basilicas of justice
A) A Roman chamber and an Egyptian chamber B) A philosophical chamber and a legal chamber C) A public chamber and a private chamber D) A Greek chamber and a Latin chamber
A) Bronze statues of philosophers B) Painted murals of battles C) Wooden bookcases for scrolls D) Marble busts of emperors
A) His military manual on bridge building B) His personal memoirs, the Commentarii C) His commentary on the Dacian Wars, the Dacica D) His letters to Pliny the Younger
A) 500 figures B) 1,500 figures C) 3,000 figures D) 2,662 figures
A) 155 scenes B) 230 scenes C) 50 scenes D) 500 scenes
A) 58 times B) 10 times C) 25 times D) 100 times
A) A failed artistic experiment B) A copy of Egyptian obelisks C) A traditional Greek design D) An architectural innovation
A) Constantine B) Marcus Aurelius C) Augustus D) Nero
A) From about 1 metre to 1.2 metres B) From 0.5 metres to 2 metres C) From 2 metres to 1 metre D) It stays the exact same width
A) In reverse order B) In isolated square frames C) Continuously D) Chronologically separated by text
A) A variety of different perspectives are used to reveal more B) Only aerial perspectives are used C) No perspective is used at all D) Strict linear perspective is always maintained
A) The Parthian War B) The first campaign (101–102) C) The Gallic Wars D) The second campaign (105–106)
A) The first campaign (101–102) B) The Germanic Wars C) The second campaign (105–106) D) The civil wars
A) They were purely fictional future wars B) They occurred centuries before construction C) They happened during the Republic D) They were contemporary to the time of construction
A) Senate debate B) Imperial address (adlocutio) C) Gladiatorial combat D) Naval defeat
A) Supplicatio B) Sacrificio C) Lustratio D) Consecratio
A) Profectio B) Expeditio C) Triumphus D) Reditus
A) They are very much a minority B) They are completely absent C) They take up exactly half of the column D) They make up the majority of the frieze
A) Political negotiations in the Senate B) Panicked retreats and chaotic skirmishes C) Triumphal parades through Rome D) Orderly soldiers carrying out ceremony and construction
A) To completely annihilate the local population B) To establish a temporary trading outpost C) To incorporate and integrate Dacia into the Roman Empire as a province D) To exact a one-time monetary tribute
A) They are limited to the background B) They are shown in great detail C) They appear only in the upper half D) They are nonexistent
A) Foreign ambassadors visiting the capital B) The conquered Dacian nobility C) The Roman legionaries stationed abroad D) The urban population of Rome
A) Their fear of foreign naval invasions B) Their distrust of the Senate C) Their fear of grain shortages D) Their fear and distrust of the army
A) A religious prophet and reformer B) A man of justice, clemency, moderation, and restraint C) An austere and unyielding dictator D) A ruthless conqueror of nations
A) A peaceful commercial partnership B) A more total conquest of the province than had previously been achieved C) An ecological disaster caused by the Romans D) The construction of a temporary road network
A) 5 of the 500 trees B) 100 of the 200 trees C) 48 of the 224 trees D) 10 of the 50 trees
A) A large portrait of Emperor Trajan B) An inscription dedicated to Jupiter C) A personification of victory writing on a shield flanked by trophies D) A carving of a sacrificial bull
A) The signing of the initial peace treaty B) The assassination of Decebalus C) The burning of the Dacian capital D) The great sacrifice by the Danube bridge
A) Apollodorus of Damascus B) The Dacian king Decebalus C) Emperor Trajan D) King Burebista
A) Greek fire siphons B) A ballista or catapult C) Steel crossbows D) Gunpowder cannons
A) 37 types B) 10 types C) 50 types D) 12 types
A) Veristic style B) Idealized classical style C) Gothic style D) Abstract style
A) They appear only on the top viewing platform B) They occupy the central heroic positions C) They are completely absent from all scenes D) They occupy and define the margins of the scenes
A) Dacian women did not wear clothes B) Women were forbidden from entering Rome C) Female figures were reserved only for coins D) Mortal females in Roman state art are so rare
A) The importance of agricultural labor B) The idea of subjugation by feminizing the foreign conquered C) The idea of democratic political alliances D) The strength of Dacian military resistance
A) The abduction of the Sabine women B) The torture scene C) The mass suicide scene D) The mourning of fallen soldiers
A) Roman soldiers torturing Dacian captives B) Roman women defending a burning fort C) Four Dacian women torturing two naked men D) Dacian priests sacrificing animals
A) An abstract allegorical effect B) A humorous caricature effect C) A strong effect of verisimilitude D) A surreal mythological effect
A) As objective historical truth B) As prophetic visions of the future C) As mythological fiction D) As theatrical stage performances
A) He is depicted as a giant god making 100 appearances B) He is depicted realistically making 58 appearances C) He appears only once at the very top D) He is hidden among the crowd in disguise
A) Roman and barbarian arms, methods of warfare, and costume B) Greek theatrical scripts and music C) Early Christian religious rituals D) Roman culinary recipes and dining habits
A) Gladiatorial arenas B) Forts, ships, and weapons C) Agricultural windmills D) Chariot race tracks
A) A legal code written by Apollodorus B) A collection of poetry about Rome C) A map of the Danube river D) Trajan's lost commentary on the Dacian Wars
A) Serve as a textbook for Roman children B) Be buried inside the column's pedestal C) Be echoed in the spiralling, sculpted narrative design of the column D) Be read aloud during Senate meetings
A) To burn oil lamps for lighting B) To hold wooden bookcases for scrolls C) To display marble busts of conquered kings D) To store military weapons
A) Florence B) Milan C) Rome D) Naples
A) Greek B) Spanish C) Latin D) Italian
A) Italian B) Latin C) German D) French
A) South B) West C) North D) East
A) Medieval clock towers B) Numerous victory columns, both ancient and modern C) Roman triumphal arches D) Egyptian obelisks
A) A wooden ladder B) A spiral staircase C) An external stone ramp D) A system of pulley ropes
A) About 15 metres (49 feet) B) About 34 metres (112 feet) C) About 20 metres (66 feet) D) About 50 metres (164 feet)
A) A gold figure of an angel B) A bronze figure of Saint Peter C) A silver figure of an eagle D) A bronze figure of Trajan
A) Statues of gods B) Gold coins C) Scrolls D) Armour and shields
A) About 2,500 figures B) Exactly 1,000 figures C) 500 figures D) Over 5,000 figures
A) Gladiators, actors, musicians and poets B) Doctors, lawyers, architects and builders C) Sailors, soldiers, statesmen and priests D) Farmers, merchants, artists and slaves
A) Crossing the Rubicon B) Crossing the Rhine into Germania C) The first crossing of the Danube by the Roman legion D) Crossing the Euphrates in the East
A) Trajan's voyage down the Tiber B) Trajan's voyage to Britain C) Trajan's voyage across the Mediterranean D) Trajan's voyage up the Danube
A) The surrender of the Parthians B) The surrender of the Carthaginians C) The surrender of the Dacians D) The surrender of the Gauls
A) The assault on Jerusalem B) The assault on the Dacian capital C) The assault on Alesia D) The assault on Carthage
A) At the southern entrance B) Toward the northernmost point C) In the exact geographic center D) Outside the main gates
A) Gaston Boissier B) Paul Veyne C) Jean-Pierre Champollion D) Victor Duruy
A) Julius Caesar B) Charlemagne C) Augustus D) Napoleon
A) Manumission B) Exile C) Deification D) Ostracism
A) 98 B) 138 C) 117 D) 110
A) Bronze B) Gold C) Marble D) Silver
A) Fastings B) Circumambulation C) Chanting D) Genuflection
A) With Roman square capitals B) With manuscript lettering C) With a titulus D) With a dot
A) Edward Gibbon B) Carol Twombly C) Frederic Goudy D) Warren Chappell
A) Warren Chappell B) Edward Catich C) Edward Gibbon D) Antoninus Pius
A) 29 window slits B) 6 window slits C) 43 window slits D) 185 window slits
A) Basilica Ulpia B) Place Vendôme C) Capitoline Temple D) Trajan's Market
A) 185 blocks B) 29 blocks C) 14 blocks D) 19 blocks
A) 19 blocks B) 29 blocks C) 43 blocks D) 185 blocks
A) Germany B) Dacia C) The Capitoline Hill D) Austerlitz
A) Four B) Two C) Twelve D) Eight
A) Filippo Brunelleschi B) Donato Bramante C) Domenico Fontana D) Michelangelo Buonarroti
A) Rome B) Mainz C) Bucharest D) London
A) The German Archaeological Institute B) A team from the Victoria and Albert Museum C) An anonymous Roman historian D) Conrad Cichorius |
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