B.C.-ing You
Yerevan, the capital of this country, dates back to a settlement of the 700s B.C
Armenia
Reports of his "fiddling" while Rome burned are greatly exaggerated; fiddles didn't even exist back then
Nero
Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariot was cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy
Bronze
She was a beautiful mortal, but after making Athena angry, which you should definitely never do, this Gorgon got a reptile hairdo
Medusa
Physical & cultural are branches of this "study of humans"
anthropology
His last play, "Oedipus at Colonus", was produced posthumously in 401 B.C.
Sophocles
As seen in the bust, Commodus was obsessed with this he-man of Greek myth, even dressing as him
Hercules
A vulture & one of these reptiles jut out of the forehead of the mask of Tutankhamun
As you can see from what happened to Ixion, hitting on this woman, Zeus's wife, was not a great idea
Hera
Odontology deals with the structure & development of these
teeth
3 times was not the charm for Carthage which lost all 3 of these wars against Rome between 264 & 146 B.C.
Punic Wars
Hadrian had his wall & this cousin who immediately preceded him had his column
Trajan
The Nebra sky disk told ancients it was time to add a leap month when the crescent moon was by this sisterly star cluster
The Pleiades
Let's just say Zeus was disappointed this god gave fire to humans, nailing him to a big rock & having his liver eaten repeatedly
Prometheus
They're the largest of the creatures that are studied in cetology
(blue) whales
This powerful dynasty that began ruling China in 202 B.C. ushered in a golden age of culture & prosperity
The Han Dynasty
Incitatus was this emperor's favorite horse & legend says he once tried to make the animal a consul
Caligula
Heinrich Schliemann found gold ornaments he called "The Jewels of Helen" while excavating this site in 1873
Troy
Song titles applying to the plight of this Corinth king: "Like A Rolling Stone" & "Running Up That Hill" (& back down again, forever)
Sisyphus
Bacteria & protozoa are of special interest in this field, literally the scientific study of small living things
microbiology
In 480 B.C. the Battle of Salamis saw Greek navies take on the navies of this Persian ruler, son of Darius
Xerxes
Seen here is the exterior of the once-magnificent baths of this emperor, which could accommodate some 1,600 bathers
Caracalla
Archaeologists are still struggling to decode the Phaistos Disc found in 1908 during an excavation of a palace of this culture on Crete
Actaeon got a naked look at Apollo's twin sis, this goddess; she then turned Acty into a stag & said release the hounds!
Artemis
The history of words & the study of them, its own goes back to Greek for "true meanings"
etymology