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This Latin term is used to convey traditional, precedented practices.
The focus (the Latin term for hearth) of the city of Rome is associated with this deity.
Who is Vesta?
According to Virgil, this city was particularly loved by Juno.
What is Carthage?
According to mytho-historical tradition, Rome had this many kings.
What is seven?
The Greco-Romans would look to this author for foundational and/or patron heroes.
Who is Homer?
Loyalty to the gods, the state, and the family is known as this Latin term.
What is pietas?
This god was said to be the father of Romulus and Remus.
Who is Mars?
This Roman clan claimed that they were descended from Aeneas?
What is the Julian clan?
The Crisis of the First Century in the Roman world was marked by a series of these events.
What are civil wars?
This is the literal translation of the Greek word historia.
What is investigation?
This Latin term means excessive devotion.
What is superstitio?
This well-known Greek god did not have a native equivalent in Roman religion?
Who is Apollo?
Who is Turnus?
This historical event is depicted at the center of Aeneas' shield.
What is the Battle of Actium?
This Latin term means a talent inherited from one's ancestors.
What is genius?
This term is used to describe the traditional, ancestral value system in Rome.
What is Mos Maiorum?
When Rome was at peace, the doors to this temple were closed.
What is the temple of Janus?
In book 8 of the Aeneid, the river god Tiberinus tells Aeneas that his son (Ascanius/Iulus) will found this city.
What is Alba Longa?
The king Numa Pompilius was best known for establishing many aspects of this part of Roman life.
What is religion?
This term is used for a detailed description of art in literature (particularly in epic poetry).
What is ekphrasis?
This term is used to convey the idea of divine powers everywhere.
What is animism?
This Latin word for priest originally meant "bridge-builder".
What is pontifex?
Who is Evander?
This man was originally supposed to be Octavian/Augustus' successor.
Who is Marcellus?
After his defeat of the Alban champions, Horatius commits this crime.