The founder and first king of Rome, who was raised by a wolf along with his twin brother.
Who is Romulus?
100
The Aeneid of Vergil recounts the adventures of Aeneas, a Trojan prince destined to be the forefather of the Romans; the Romans believed he was the son of Anchises and this goddess.
Who is Venus?
100
This city in the Peloponnese was located near the isthmus of the same name connecting the peninsula to the rest of Greece; the Romans destroyed it in 146 BC.
What is Corinth?
100
This king of Persia invaded Greece in 480-479 BC, but was defeated in battle at Salamis.
Who is Xerxes (Xerxes I)?
100
The father (and half-brother) of Antigone.
Who is Oedipus?
200
This king of Macedon effectively conquered Greece with his victory at Chaeronea in 338 BC, paving the way for the future conquests of his son.
Who is Philip II?
200
This poet primarily wrote love elegies prior to the composition of his fifteen-book magnum opus on the theme of transformation; Augustus had him relegated to Tomis in 8 AD on account of "carmen et error".
Who is P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)?
200
This province was annexed by the Romans in 146 BC as a result of the destruction of Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War.
What is Africa?
200
The father of Hannibal, who waged a guerrilla war in Sicily during the First Punic War before conquering Spain.
Who is Hamilcar Barca (Hamilcar)?
200
The father of Achilles.
Who is Peleus?
300
Rome's fifth king and first Etruscan king; he is credited with building the Circus Maximus, and was assassinated as part of a plot by the sons of Ancus Marcius.
Who is Tarquinius Priscus?
300
Epic poetry in the ancient world was exclusively composed in this meter.
What is dactylic hexameter?
300
Julius Caesar recounts, in Book I of his Commentarii de Bello Gallico, the defeat at Bibracte of this people from modern day Switzerland.
Who are the Helvetii (Helvetians)?
300
The adopted son of Micipsa, king of Numidia, who usurped power from his brothers while the Roman Senate turned a blind eye. Marius waged war against him in 106 BC but he was actually surrendered to Marius' quaestor, Sulla.
Who is Jugurtha?
300
The father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.
Who is Atreus?
400
The tyrant of Athens until 527 BC, this man, who would later institute the Panathenaia and compile a definitive form of the Homeric epics, tried to secure his tyranny by riding into Athens alongside a woman dressed as Athena
Who is Peisistratos?
400
The wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax, who has a prominent role in Book VI of the Iliad.
Who is Andromache?
400
This Aegean island was home to the female poet Sappho and the location of the city of Mytilene, which revolted from Athens in 428 BC.
What is Lesbos?
400
This king of Lydia, one of the richest men of the day, foolishly attacked Persia after misinterpreting an oracle about the fall of a great empire; his kingdom was destroyed, but he was made an advisor to Cyrus the Great.
Who is Croesus?
400
The father of Asclepius.
Who is Apollo?
500
The king of Sparta at the end of the Thirty Years' Peace, who tried unsuccessfully to forestall the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC; the first phase of the war is named after him.
Who is Archidamus (Archidamus II)?
500
The first four books of the Odyssey are often referred to by this name, from the name of Odysseus' son, who has a prominent role in this portion of the poem.
What is the Telemachy?
500
This Greek colony in the south of Italy was conquered by the Romans in 272 BC, following the wars with King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
What is Tarentum?
500
The great general who led won of the Gauls' largest rebellions; he was defeated by Julius Caesar in 52 BC at Alesia.