Mythology
This three-headed beast guards the Underworld
Who is Cerberus?
The meter of the Iliad and the Odyssey
What is dactylic hexameter? ; What is epic meter?
The First emperor of Rome
Who is Octavian Augustus?
This human muscle uses the Latin word for "two"
What is the bicep muscle?
Prometheus' daily punishment for stealing from Zeus
What is being chained to a rock, with his ever-regenerating liver being eaten by an eagle daily?
This author wrote "The Three Theban Plays"
Who is Sophocles?
The animal famously ridden by Hannibal Barca in the Second Punic War
What is an elephant?
The name for this sickness comes from the Latin verb "verto", meaning "to turn"
What is vertigo?
The Roman god of time, doorways, and transitions
Who is Janus?
The author of the Greek Comedy 'Clouds'
Who is Aristophanes?
The mother of the emperor Nero, whom he eventually had assassinated
Who is Agrippina (the Younger)?
These two Greek words make up the English word "onomatopoeia"
What are "όνομα, -ονόματος ; name" and "ποιέω, ποιέειν ; to make"?
These religious officials would read and interpret birds
Who are Augurs
The largest single work to survive from the Roman Empire to the modern day
What is the Natural History?
The four humors according to the Hippocratic Corpus
What are blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile?
An English word meaning "orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships", which derives from the Greek word "τάξις, -εως ; arrangement"
What is "taxonomy"?
The psychoactive substance (maybe) used during the Eleusinian Mysteries?
What is ergot?
The opening line to this poem is referenced in a graffito outside of a Pompeian laundromat
What is the Aeneid?
(fullones ululamque cano, non arma virumq(ue))
The city on Crete widely considered "Europe's oldest ancient city"
What is Knossos?
The name for this common form of transportation has etymological roots in the latin word for goat.
What is a cab?
Cabriolet (fr) -> capriola (it) -> caper, capri (lat)