Who's Your Daddy?
Heracles / Hercules
What case is the underlined word?
Pluto pomum mortis Proserpinae dedit.
nominative
toilet
What would a Roman man wear under his toga?
tunic / tunica
In what modern-day country is Mount Olympus?
Greece
Polyphemus
Poseidon / Neptune
What case is the underlined word?
Pluto pomum mortis Proserpinae dedit.
accusative
Stinky breath? Chew on this leaf, which shares a name with Hades' former lover.
mint / Minthe
At about what age would a Roman boy wear his first toga?
puberty / age 11-13
Near which modern-day city is the Tiber River?
Rome
Perseus
Zeus / Jupiter
What case is the underlined word?
Pluto pomum mortis Proserpinae dedit.
dative
Instead of lathering up with soap, Romans would use a strigil to scrape this dirt-catching substance off their skin.
(olive) oil
The color of stripe along a toga signified the social status of the citizen wearing it. White was for politic candidates, red was for senators, and what color was for emperors or members of the royal family?
purple
Around which body of water were Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Misenum?
The Bay of Naples
Theseus
Aegeus
What case is the underlined word?
Pluto pomum mortis Proserpinae dedit.
genitive
Instead of toilet paper, what unique invention did Roman bathhouses offer with which to clean up?
Women did not don the toga, as it was reserved for men, except for a meretrix, a woman of this profession.
prostitute
The Rhine River separated the Roman Empire from which northern neighbor?
Germany / Germania
Chiron
Cronus / Saturn
If the author added the phrase in Tartaro to the sentence Pluto pomum mortis Proserpinae dedit, what case would Tartaro be in?
ablative
Roman baths were often heated with this underground heating system, in which slaves manned a fire beneath the floor, allowed hot air to circulate.
hypocaust
The word togatus was used so often it transformed from "a man wearing a toga" to refer to simply "a Roman citizen." What is another word for "citizen" in Latin?
civis
Hadrian's Wall separated Roman settlements from Caledonian Picts on which island?
Great Britain / Britannia