Party Time
Ancient Roman holiday in December, involving role-reversal, gift-giving, and gambling
What is Saturnalia?
'Liquid luck' potion in the Harry Potter series (nom. and gen. sing. of adjective 'lucky')
What is 'felix felicis'?
A Roman poet who famously wrote of his mercurial love affair with 'Lesbia'
Who is Catullus?
'Carthage must be destroyed'
What is 'Carthago delenda est'?
Symbols of magisterial authority carried by Roman lictors, from which 'fascism' derives
What are fasces?
Most significant Athenian festival honoring the patron goddess Athena
What is the Panathenaia?
The fictional country of the Hunger Games, based on Juvenal's critic of Roman politics: '____ et circenses'
What is Panem?
The last king of Rome, overthrown in a public uprising in 509 BCE
Who is Lucius Tarquinius Superbus?
'As the lily'
Sicut Lilium
The Aegean island that suffered a cataclysmic eruption in the Minoan period
What is Thera?
What is the (City) Dionysia?
Popular video game set in Greece during the Peloponnesian Wars, following the adventures of a Spartan exile (Alexios / Kassandra)
What is Assassin's Creed Odyssey?
Statesman and orator who led Athens during its 'Golden Age' and is credited with the construction of the Parthenon
Who is Pericles?
National motto of Scotland; also appears in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' as the motto of the Montresor family
What is 'nemo me impune lacessit'?
A decree issued in 301 CE which set maximum prices on important goods and services
What are the Diocletian price edicts?
Female followers of Dionysus, depicted as playing instruments and revelling madly in the woods
What are the Bacchae / Bacchantes / Maenads?
Medieval Italian fanfiction of an Ancient Roman fanfiction of the Iliad/Odyssey
What is Dante's Divine Comedy?
Blind prophet, whom Hera transformed into a woman for 7 years as punishment for disturbing a pair of snakes
Who is Tiresias?
'Come [and] take [them]', attributed to King Leonidas of Sparta
What is μολὼν λαβέ ?
Monetary compensation for crimes in early Germanic and Anglo-Saxon society
What is wergild?
Celebration attended by the Olympian gods, during which Eris threw a golden apple, ultimately inciting the Trojan War
What is the marriage of Peleus and Thetis?
What is the Penelopiad?
The two major authors of Early Latin Comedy, whose plays include Phormio, Eunuchus, Amphitryon, and Pseudolus
Who are Plautus and Terence?
'Man [is the] measure' (Protagoras, quoted by Plato)
Ἄνθρωπος μέτρον
A term that occurs in the Hippocratic corpus, literally meaning 'destructive pessary'
What is πεσσὸν φθόριον?