Roman Life
This famous building hosted gladiator fights and other games.
What is the Colosseum?
This Greek city-state was known for its fierce warriors.
What is Sparta?
The king of the gods in Greece was Zeus. His roman counterpart is known as what.
Who is Jupiter/Jove?
This modern language is most closely related to Latin.
What is Italian?
This movie follows the story of Maximus as he fights for justice for his family’s death.
What is Gladiator?
The Circus was around way back in Roman times, but this circus was quite different from the modern one. If a person were to go to the circus, they would see this.
What are chariot races?
This place is known for being the destination of the first marathon.
What is Athens?
This son of Venus escaped the destruction of Troy and founded a city that would lead to the founding of Rome.
Who is Aeneas?
This is the Latin word for friend.
What is amicus?
This Greek king is the protagonist of the film 300.
This necklace was worn by Roman boys until the age of 16 and by Roman girls until they were married.
What is a bulla?
The name of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 405 BC, which in result made Sparta the most powerful city-state in the region.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This animal rescued the twins Romulus and Remus from a river and raised them.
The state motto of North Carolina, “Esse Quam Videri”, translates to this in English.
This classical movie won 11 different awards back in 1960.
What is Ben Hur?
Senators and children in the city wore this type of toga, which had purple borders.
What is a toga praetexta?
Ancient Greece had its peak under this ruler who conquered much of the ancient world.
Who was Alexander the Great?
This is a city that Aeneas founded in Italy.
What is Lavinium?
What is “I came. I saw. I conquered.”?
This comedy group created the film Life of Brian, set in Ancient Rome.
What is Monty Python?
This type of Roman toga was pure white and worn only on the most fancy occasions.
What is a toga virilis or toga alba?
This ruler of Athens during the Peloponnesian War died of plague.
Who was Pericles?
This nymph ran away from Apollo and begged her father, a river god, to save her, which he did by turning her into the first laurel tree.
Who is Daphne?
The word amavimus is in this Latin tense.
What is perfect tense?
This movie created in 1932 is based on Nero blaming the Christians for burning Rome.
What is The Sign of the Cross?