Festivals
This December festival involved gift-giving and role reversal
What is Saturnalia
During the republic these were the 2 main social classes
What are Patricians and Plebians?
Who is Augustus?
This god was the King of the Roman Gods
Who is Jupiter?
This large building in Rome hosted gladiator fights
What is the Colosseum?
This festival honoured the founding of Rome and was linked to fertility
What is Lupercalia?
This class of people went through a process called manumission
What are Freedmen?
This emperor is known for playing the violin while Rome burned
Who is Nero?
This god was associated with love and beauty
Who is Venus?
This Roman structure was used to transport water over long distances
What is an aqueduct?
During this festival Romans honoured their ancestors and the dead
What is Parentalia?
Who are Patricians?
This emperor built the first wall across Britain
Who is Hadrian?
These twins were said to have founded Rome
Who are Romulus and Remus?
What is the Forum?
This festival involved the whipping of woman
What is Lupercalia?
What are slaves?
This emperor was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BCE
Who is Julius Caesar?
Who is Pluto?
This famous temple in Rome is the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world
What is the Pantheon
This festival featured an unusual custom in which slaves could be the masters
What is Saturnalia?
This group made decisions about potential laws for Rome
Who are the Senators?
This emperor was the first to worship Christianity and founded a city in modern Türkiye
Who is Constantine the Great?
This hero of Troy is considered an ancestor of the Romans
Who is Aeneas?
What is the arch?