HISTORY & PUBLIC LIFE
Helvetia
Switzerland
Cubiculum
Bedroom
Atalanta
Quickest female runner
Picked up golden apples during the race
Livy, Tacitus
Wrote history
Arcus
Arch
Augustus
first Roman Emperor
Panis et vinum
Bread and Wine
Part of a Roman Meal
Nectar/Ambrosia
Food/Drink of the gods
-which gave them immortality
Horace
Poet
Said Carpe Diem
Aquaeductus
Bridge that carries
Rostrum
Speaker's Platform
Bulla
Necklace
Symbol of boyhood
Chimaera
Part goat, lion, snake
Ulysses
Roman name for Odysseus
Cloaca
Sewer
Aedilis
In charge of entertainment
Fibula et anulus
Pin and ring
Ariadne
Helped Theseus kill the Minotaur.
Gave him string and a sword
Anaphora
Repetition of a word
Thermae
Baths
Nos morituri te salutamus.
We who are about to die, salute you.
Said by the gladiators to the Roman emperor before a gladiator fight.
Spina
Dividing wall at the chariot races
Hasta
Spear, javelin
Simile
Comparison with like/as
Palaestra
Place for wrestling