Geography, Old and New
This region's name hasn't really changed that much since the Romans lovingly called it, "Our conquered area." Now it's said with a French accent.
What is Provence?
There was an angry storm running our way.
What is personification?
This event took place on March 15th, or the Ides of March, in 44 BCE.
What is the assassination of Caesar?
What is Barbara?
It's in his name: What is the main job of an aquilifer?
What is carrying the legion's eagle standard?
This weapon was known as a gladius Hispaniensis.
This town, the nearest to the Helvetii when their migration started, later was where the formal rules of modern war were written.
What is Geneva?
He looked over and under, under and over.
What is chiasmus?
Caesar could trace his family back to this particular deity.
Who is Venus?
This word, ultimately from the Latin for copper, was the title of the highest-grossing music tour in history.
What is eras?
This is the Latin term for a diplomat, or a person in charge of a legion.
What is a legatus?
DAILY DOUBLE!
The name of Caligula, 3rd emperor of Rome, literally means "little THESE."
The people who gave this body of water its name hadn't arrived yet, but that didn't mean Caesar hated it any less.
What is the English channel?
This rhetorical device isn't bad at all.
What is litotes?
Caesar built a massive bridge across this river leading into Germany, but not for friendly reasons.
What is the Rhine?
This Roman author wrote "The Metamorphoses", not to be confused with "The Metamorphosis" written by Kafka.
Who is Ovid?
There are about twenty fewer men in this unit of a Roman legion.
Century
This is the English term for a scutum.
What is a shield?
The mountain that loomed over the Helvetii migration gave its name to this period of earth's history that ended 145 million years ago.
What is the Jurassic period?
The students finished the stress-filled homework.
What is transferred epithet?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This man was Caesar's uncle, who reformed the legions and was named the third founder of Rome.
A "bulla" would be worn by this type of person to ward off evil spirits.
Who is a (Roman) boy?
To the nearest thousand, this is how foot soldiers were in a Roman legion.
This Roman weapon was a type of spear that bent at the shaft so it couldn't be thrown back.
The northern region of Gaul eventually became this modern European nation, defacto home of the EU's capital.
What is Belgium?
This sentence is good and written.
What is hendiadys?
This was Caesar's son-in-law, though he was quite a bit older than Caesar himself.
Who is Pompey the Great?
This is another word for "mos maiorum," which guided most decisions made by the Roman Senate.
What is tradition?
Everyone knows that this was Caesar's favorite legion.
What is the 10th?
What is a belt?