Legendary Beginnings
What is the name of the wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus?
Capitoline Wolf
These two social classes vied for power, with one originally monopolizing offices and priesthoods, and the other seeking greater rights.
Patricians and Plebians
This Carthaginian general famously crossed the Alps with war elephants to surprise the Romans during the Second Punic War.
Hannibal
Romans wore this distinctive draped garment for official and ceremonial events, symbolizing citizenship and status.
The toga
This Roman historian wrote Ab Urbe Condita (“From the Founding of the City”), offering a moralizing narrative that began with Rome’s mythical origins and continued through early imperial times.
Livy
According to myth, this Trojan hero’s journey to Italy gave Rome a link to the Homeric epics.
Aeneas
This practice saw plebeians withdraw from the city altogether, refusing to fight or work until their grievances were addressed.
Secession of the Plebs
Rome’s first overseas province, gained after the First Punic War, was this large island.
Sicily
These ten annually elected officials defended plebeian rights, wielding the power of the veto to block harmful legislation.
Often hailed as one of Rome’s greatest historians, this author wrote the Annals and Histories, covering the Julio-Claudian and Flavian emperors with a critical, sometimes cynical lens.
Tacitus
This event in Rome’s early mythological history involved the abduction of neighboring women to secure wives for Rome’s men.
The Rape of the Sabines
Passed around 445 BC, this law allowed Patricians and Plebeians to legally marry each other for the first time.
Lex Canuleia
In the Second Punic War, this Roman commander defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama.
Scipio Africanus
This institution allowed patrician families to own large rural estates worked by slaves, further widening wealth gaps.
Latinfundia
Although primarily a biographer, this Greek intellectual wrote Parallel Lives, pairing famous Romans and Greeks to illustrate moral lessons and character studies.
Plutarch
Legend says Rome’s monarchy ended around 509 BC when this last king, known for his tyranny, was expelled. NameThis King.
Tarquinius Superbus
Which set of Laws passed in 367 BC opened the consulship to plebeians and introduced land and debt reforms.
Licinio-Sextian Laws
The King of Macedon who provided air to the Greeks during the Pyrrhic Wars
Phillip V
The Roman concept of virtus included courage and excellence, especially for these citizens who also served as soldiers.
Citizen-Soldiers
This concept held that Rome engaged in conflicts for “just” causes, declared formally by priests, used to legitimize expansion.
Bellum Justum
Aeneas, Romulus, and Remus are prime examples of how Romans looked this way to define their identity and justify their power.
The backward-looking nature of history”
Codified in the mid-5th century BC, these earliest written statutes of Roman law were displayed publicly and provided legal transparency.
Twelve Tables
In 27 BC, this figure effectively ended the Roman Republic and established the Principate, taking a name meaning “revered one.”
Augustus Caesar
A freed slave in Rome was called this, yet remained linked to their former master as a patron.
Libertinus
This Greek historian, taken as a hostage to Rome, wrote extensively on Rome’s rise and was impressed by its constitution.
Polybius