Vocabulary
Define tyrant.
What is a harsh ruler?
Name for March 15.
What is the Ides of March?
Julius Caesar's message after victory at Zela.
Veni, vidi, vici.
Founding of Rome
753 BC
"You too, Brutus?"
Who is Julius Caesar?
Define asp.
What is a poisonous serpent?
Define triumvirate.
What is a three-man ruling body?
Give four ways Caesar was great.
What are orator, scholar, statesman, and soldier?
Founding of the Republic
510 BC
"My poor stepbrother always was subject to fits."
Define orator.
Who is someone who gives public speeches?
Name of the elite soldiers who guarded the emperor.
What is the Praetorian Guard?
One of Caesar's protege and friend, one of the assassins.
Who is Brutus?
Sack of Rome by the Gauls
390 BC
"You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when I shall be the master of the Romans."
Who is Octavius (Augustus?)
Define glutton.
What is being greedy with food.
What is a mock sea battle?
Conspiracy confronted by Cicero.
What is the Catiline Conspiracy?
Octavian rules the Roman Empire
27 BC
"I have lost a day."
Define ballista.
What is a machine for throwing heavy stones?
Define amphi.
What is "on both sides?"
Name four Augustan poets.
Who are Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Varius?
Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
70 AD
"In that young man there is many a Marius."