Obscure Gods
Ancient Authorship
Language
Emperors
Mythology
100

He is the god of shepherds, flocks, hunters, forests, and pastoral music. He is also a fertility symbol with a ravenous sexual appetite (Greek)

Pan

100

This Roman author wrote The Aenied

Virgil

100

An English word for one hundred comes from this latin root

cent

100

First emperor of Rome

Augustus

100

The Greek hero who killed Medusa

Perseus

200

She is associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy and sorcery. (Greek)

Hecate

200

This ancient playwright is most known for tragedies such as Medea.

Euripides

200

This case is often used to express possession

Genitive

200

The last Julio Claudian emperor was ___

Nero

200

The mythological founders of Rome

Romulus and Remus

300

The personification of sleep (Greek)

Hypnos

300

The one complete surviving work by Sappho

Ode to Aphrodite

300

These are the two primary "types" of ancient Greek found in literature

Koine and Attic

300

This emperor made a horse a senator

Caligula

300

This Greek huntress lost a foot race after being distracted by a golden apple

Atalanta

400

One of the very first gods created by the Romans, god of landmarks and stones placed on boundary lines

Terminus

400

Author of the longest Roman epic, "Punica"

Silius Italicus

400

In Latin, the subject of an indirect statement should be in this case

Accusative

400

This emperor split the empire

Diocletian

400

The mortal princess whose beauty rivalled Aphrodite

Psyche

500

Sterquilinus and Cloacina were gods of ___

Manure and the sewer

500
This Greek author attempted to "rationalise" many religious myths in his work "On Unbelievable Things"

Palaephatus

500

This English words comes from the Greek words for river and horse

Hippopotamus

500

The emperor in between Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, famous for having no significant military action during his reign

Antonius Pius

500

This queen fell in love with Aeneas in Virgil's "Aenied"

Queen Dido

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