Saturnalia Facts
Roman celebrations of Saturnalia honor this god.
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Who is Saturn?
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This bird is the symbol of Juno, the Roman queen of the Gods.
What is a peacock?
These twin brothers, allegedly raised by a she-wolf, quarreled over the first kingship of Rome.
Who are Remus and Romulus?
This Latin phrase means "seize the day."
What is "carpe diem?"
These are the six Latin noun cases.
What are: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative, and Vocative?
This Latin phrase was used by the Ancient Romans to wish each other a Happy Saturnalia.
What is "Io bono Saturnalia?"
This mostly-invulnerable Trojan War hero was considered the greatest Greek warrior to have ever lived.
Who is Achilles?
On the Ides of March, this Roman statesman and general was stabbed to death in Pompey's Theatre by a group of his close friends and colleagues.
Who was Julius Caesar?
Cave Canem! This Latin phrase advises you to beware of this animal.
What is a dog?
These are the three verb tenses of the Latin present system:
What are: Present, Imperfect, and Future?
This cosmic event takes place at the end of Saturnalia and marks the impending return of the sunlight and springtime.
What is the winter solstice?
This Greek goddess of youth personifies both springtime and death.
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Who is Persephone?
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These animals, who lived within the Temple of Juno, alerted the citizens of Rome to an invasion of Gauls with their noisy honking.
What are geese?
A "post mortem" exam is performed after a person has experienced this.
What is death?
These are the three Latin verbal moods.
What are indicative, imperative, and subjunctive?
In Ancient Rome, Saturnalia was typically celebrated during this tenth month of the year.
What is December?
To hide his affair with her from his wife, Zeus turned this mortal woman into a cow.
Who is Io?
The Acropolis in Athens is crowned by the Parthenon, a temple to this Greek goddess.
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Who is Athena?
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This kind of argument, whose name is a Latin prepositional phrase, refers to a personal attack, rather than an argument based on reason.
What is an "ad hominem" attack?
Latin prepositions can be used with these two cases.
What are the accusative and the ablative?
These small dough or terra cotta dolls were traditionally exchanged on the last day of the Saturnalia celebrations.
What are sigillaria?
This queen of Mycenae waited ten years to kill Agamemnon in vengeance for his sacrifice of Iphigenia.
Who is Clytemnestra?
This king/general led 300 Spartans to stand against a Persian invasion at Thermopylae.
Who is Leonidas?
Alea iacta est! Caesar's famous exclamation after crossing the Rubicon into the city of Rome is translated with this English phrase:
The fourth principal part is identified this way:
What is the perfect passive participle?