Roman History
This conspiracy was the subject of several orations by Cicero.
What is the Catilinarian Conspiracy?
What is Macedonia?
This god's name is the same in both Latin and Greek.
Who is Apollo?
This is a type of sauce made of fish that the Romans often ate.
What is garum?
This is the name for ancient drinking and discussion parties.
What is symposium?
Rome was (supposedly) founded in this year.
What is 753 BCE?
This historian wrote a history of the Peloponnesian Wars.
Who is Thucydides?
The Romans traced their ancestry as a people to these two gods.
Who are Venus and Mars?
Undecorated pots were used for this.
What is cooking?
This English word comes from Latin words meaning "three roads."
What is trivia?
The Roman poet Catullus wrote about this woman in many of his famous love poems.
Who is Lesbia?
This Greek mathematician and philosopher thought beans had souls.
Who is Pythagoras?
This animal was sacred to Hera.
What is the peacock?
The abbreviation D.M., often found on Roman tombstones, stands for this Latin phrase.
What is dis manibus?
This is the name for the idea that Athenians were originally born from the earth itself.
What is autocthony?
The Colosseum was called this in antiquity.
This character and his children are eaten by snakes in the Aeneid after warning the Trojans not to accept the Trojan horse. Double points if you can name the snakes!
Who is Laocoon?
Who are Porkis and Chariboia?
Ancient people made purple dye out of these.
What are snails?
The Phaistos Disc is written in this as yet undeciphered script.
What is Linear A?
These Roman emperors are known collectively as the "five good emperors."
Who are Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius?
These are the four major battles which took place during the Persian wars.
What are Marathon, Salamis, Thermopylae, and Platea?
This creature was born from Medusa's blood after Perseus cut off her head.
What is Pegasus?
This council kept the two kings of Sparta in check.
Who are the gerousia, or council of elders?
Pliny the Elder describes how this reptile gives live birth, with the young then eating their mother.
What are vipers?