Ancient Greece
Battle of Marathon year
490 BC
gadfly of Athens
Socrates
dad of Alex the G
Philip the 2nd
he conquered Britain-emperor
Claudius
first emperor of Rome before he was adopted by Caesar
Octavius
omphalos of the world
Delphi
Number of rowers on a triereme
170
name of Alex's horse
Bucephalus
Rome's greatest loss to Carthage
Cannae
this emperor finished the Coloseum
Titus
Clytaemnestra's secret lover
Aigisthos
founder of the original Academy
Plato
type of Greek language spread by his conquest
koine
last emperor of western Roman Empire
Romulus Augustulus
he made Christianity legal in 313 AD
Constantine
Spartan king at Thermopylae
Leonidas
potsherds used for writing
ostraca
3rd and final battle with Persian forces
Gaugamela
led a slave uprising in 73 BC
Spartacus
the year of the four emperors
69 AD
mythical law-giver of ancient Sparta
Lycurgus
foreigners who lived and worked in Athens
metics
name of Alex's elite cavalry force
companions
Son of Aeneas, Trojan hero and ancestor of Rome
Ascanius or Julius
year of the six Roman emperors
238 AD