Ancient Greece
The Pythian Games were held every third year of the Olympiad at this Oracle city to honor Apollo
Delphi
Now a term for any tyrannical leader, this title was given to Julius Caesar during a time of crisis
dictator
A Euripides play tells the sufferings of Hecuba & the other women of this city who are taken into slavery after its fall
Troy
This Greek "Father of Tragedy" fought in the Battle of Marathon, which he included in an epitaph he wrote for himself
Aeschylus
Now often meaning a part of a song, in ancient Greece it meant a band of dramatic singers & dancers
Chorus
In 421 B.C. a general named Nicias negotiated an end to this war; 6 years later, Athens & Sparta were back at it
The Peloponnesian War
Often the finest soldier in a unit, the aquilifer was the bearer of an image of this animal, a symbol of Rome
Eagle
Not the way I'd teach science, but Lucretius decided to explain "the nature of things" in a long poem of these 6-foot lines
(Dactyllic) Hexameter
An expression in ancient Rome to express danger or scare kids referred to the approach to Rome by this Carthaginian general, "____ ad portas" or him "at the gates"
Hannibal
The jury has reached one: It's from the Latin for "true" & "say"
verdict
Aristotle said that an ancient Athenian law made uprooting one of these trees punishable by death
Olive tree
The legendary founders of Rome, Romulus & Remus had Rhea for a mother & this war god for a dad
Mars
As a Sophocles play opens, this title king of Thebes is trying to save his city from a plague
Oedipus
He named himself princeps, or first citizen, but is known in history as the first emperor
Augustus
A Latin word for "sun" ends this word for a stylish item that protects you from the rain as well as the Sun
parasol
Originally 6 obols equaled one of these coins
drachma
These leaders of groups of 100 men were divided from senior to junior grades
These pastoral poems by Virgil are also known as "The Bucolics"
the Eclogues
Agrippina's machinations led to this heir becoming Rome's first teenage emperor
Nero
"Wolf-man": this fancier 11-letter term for a werewolf comes from two Greek roots
The palace of this Cretan city had basement rooms that served as kind of the strategic wheat reserve
Knossos
n 390 B.C. an army of this Celtic group had the distinction of being the first group to sack Rome
Gauls
Aristophanes' animal-titled works include "The Birds", "The Frogs" & this one that's actually about litigious Athenians
The Wasps
This Fourth King of Rome is credited with building the first bridge across the Tiber
Ancus Marcus
The name of this historian & orator is Latin for "silent"
Tacitus