Who's who
Wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad
Homer
Darius the Persian king was defeated here in 333 BCE
Neo-classical building completed in Auckland in 1929
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Greek goddess of wisdom
Athena
First of these games held in about 776 BCE
Olympic Games
Father of the Olympic gods
Zeus
Eruption in 79 CE witnessed by Pliny the younger
Mount Vesuvius
450-400 BCE building built on the Acropolis
Parthenon
Opens a box despite Zeus telling her not to.
Pandora
How many men did a Centurion command
100
Said to have solved the problem of the Gordian knot
Alexander the Great
Breaks out in 73 BCE
Spartacus Revolt or Third Servile War
Wall built in Britain between 122-128 CE
Hadrian's Wall
Roman goddess of the hunt known in Greek as Artemis
Diana
How many soldiers were in a Roman legion
600
Famous Greek philosopher dies in 399 BCE
Socrates
Events in 1748 CE led to its rediscovery
Pompeii
Roman building - still has the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome
Pantheon
Hercules second labour
Kills the hydra
What the Greeks used to finally enter the city of Troy
A wooden horse
Ruled Athens during its Golden Age
Pericles
He was assassinated in 44 BCE
Julius Caesar
Founded in 1753 and where you might find important parts of an Athenian building
British Museum
Blinds the cyclops Polyphemus
odysseus
last letter of the Greek alphabet
Omega