Mythology
The king of all gods.
Who is Zeus?
The first emperor of Rome in 27 BCE.
Who is Augustus?
This city-state was famous for its warriors and strict military training.
What is Sparta?
This person wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer.
The main garment worn by Roman citizens.
What is the toga?
This goddess sprang fully grown and armed from Zeus’s head?
Who is Athena?
This general crossed the Rubicon River in 49 BCE, sparking civil war.
Who is Julius Caesar?
In this city-state democracy was first developed.
What is Athens?
This Roman poet wrote the Aeneid.
Who is Vergil?
Type of open-air marketplace that was the center of Roman public life?
What is the forum?
This person was condemned to push a boulder up a hill for eternity.
Who is Sisyphus?
This is the name of the huge arena in Rome that hosted gladiatorial games.
What is the Colosseum?
This person led the Macedonians and created one of the largest empires in history.
Who is Alexander the Great.
In the Odyssey, this person is Odysseus’s faithful wife.
Who is Penelope?
The Greek word for a city-state.
What is polis?
This hero fought the Minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.
Who is Theseus?
This disaster struck the city of Pompeii in 79 CE.
What is Mt. Vesuvius volcanic eruption?
The battles of Marathon and Salamis took place in these wars.
What are the Persian Wars?
This person is the Greek playwright who wrote tragedies such as Oedipus Rex?
Who is Sophocles?
Roman baths had three main rooms: the hot, warm, and cold baths. Name one.
What is the caldarium / tepidarium / frigidarium?
This primordial Greek god of the void is often considered the very first being in existence.
Who is Chaos?
This person wrote the Annals and Histories chronicling Rome’s early empire?
Who is Tcitus?
This historian is called the “Father of History”.
Who is Herodotus?
This person is the blind prophet that appears in both Homeric epics and tragedies?
Who is Tiresias?
Wealthy Romans often dined lying on their sides in this position.
What is reclining?