Thermae
What might a Roman bather find in the caldarium?
A pool of hot water.
What is one method by which people entered into slavery?
Piracy, child abandonment, willful submission, prisoners of war, and birth.
What was Actaeon's profession?
Hunter.
Which Latin pronoun is the subject of the verb sum?
Ego.
Besides bathing, what other activities might a Roman bather partake in during a visit to the baths?
Oil massages, sauna, field exercise and wrestling, business socializing.
True or false: While slaves were not allowed to marry, they could own property.
False. Slaves had not right to family life and not right to property ownership.
What animal did Actaeon frequently hunt with?
Dogs.
Nouns in the nominative case are the subject.
What is the hypocaustum?
This famous slave led a slave revolt, which lasted for two years, from 73 to 71.
Spartacus.
Who does Actaeon famously stumble upon while hunting one day?
Diana.
What is the accusative plural form of puella.
Puellas.
In Latin, what room would you find a xylospongium?
The latrina.
What is the difference between a servus and an ancilla?
One is masculine, the other is feminine.
What grim fate befalls Actaeon?
He is transformed into a stag and devoured by his hunting dogs.
How do these two verbs differ: videbatis and videbas?
One is plural, one is singular.
What is the Latin word for the first room a Roman bath would enter when visiting a bathhouse?
The apodyterium.
This act, meaning 'sending from the hand,' is the Roman term for releasing a slave from slavery.
Manumission.
Why is the goddess enraged that Actaeon found her bathing?
She is a virgin goddess.
What the grammatical term for a verb which does not have a tense and typically follows the verbs possum and volo.
Infinitive.