The Empire Strikes Back
He's that emperor who supposedly made his horse, Incitatus, consul.
Who is Caligula?
This is the verb voice common in Greek but essentially absent from Latin.
What is the Middle?
This woman was turned into an eight-legged creepy crawler for insulting Athena.
Who is Arachne?
This woman, arguably the most powerful in the Mediterranean during the late Republic, got with both Caesar and Antony before her demise.
Who is Cleopatra?
This is the translation of "in vino veritas," a quotation that is not Harvard's motto.
What is "in wine, there is truth"?
This is the emperor who, according to some, was poisoned with a lethal mushroom stew served up by his wife-niece.
Who is Claudius?
This is the entire Greek alphabet, in order.
What is α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, μ, ν, ξ, ο, π, ρ, σ, τ, υ, φ, χ, ψ, ω?
This serpent-like goddess is the mother of most of mythology’s most famous monsters.
Who is Echidna?
She is the female poet from Lesbos, namesake of many terms describing women-loving-women.
Who is Sappho?
He is the author of a poem that begins with "Odi et amo."
Who is Catullus?
This emperor ruled the empire at its greatest territorial extent in 117CE.
Who is Trajan?
In Latin, this is what happens when you mix a gerundive with a form of sum, maybe even throwing in a dative of agent.
What is the Passive Periphrastic?
This hero was sacrificed by his father, Tantalus, and was served as a meal to the Olympian gods.
Who is Pelops?
Usually identified with the notorious Clodia, she is the fickle lover often sung in Catullus' poetry.
Who is Lesbia?
This is the Latin for Juvenal's famous question, "Who will guard the guards themselves?"
What is "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
This emperor, prevailing in the year of four, thought he was becoming a god while dying of diarrhea.
Who is Vespasian?
What is pur?
The mares of this man have the unique characteristic of eating men.
Who is Diomedes?
Wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius, this woman is featured on many a coin.
Who is Livia?
This Gallic leader exclaimed "Vae Victis" after besieging Rome.
This is the naughty, naughty son of Marcus Aurelius, who, spending his free time cosplaying Hercules, broke the "Good Emperor" streak.
Who is Commodus?
These are the Latin principal parts of the verb from which the term for the case that Latin has but Greek lacks is ultimately derived.
What is fero, ferre, tuli, latus?
This nymph was transformed into a terrifying sea-monster with twelve feet and six snakelike heads that ate some of Odysseus’ men from her.
Who is Scylla?
Who is Agrippina the Younger?
This is the Latin motto of the University of Chicago.
What is "Crescat scientia, vita excolatur"?
He made Christianity the official state religion of Rome in 380CE.
Who is Theodosius I?
This is the translation of "Ὁ Δικαιόπολις αὐτουργός ἐστιν" into Latin.
What is Dicaeopolis agricola est?
This monstrous god in his first battle with Zeus removes Zeus’s tendons so he cannot flee.
Who is Typhon?
This British warrior-queen of the Iceni tribe led a revolt in the 60CE against Roman occupation.
Who is Boudicca?
This is the translation of Eta Sigma Phi's Greek motto, φιλοσοφοῦμεν κὰι φιλοκαλοῦμεν
What is We are lovers of / We love wisdom and beauty?