Oh My Gods
She was worshiped at the LARARIUM with ancestral gods and was one of the most important deities in Rome itself.
Who is Vesta/Hestia?
This was the open exercise area in the bathhouse where it was common to work up a sweat before bathing.
What is the PALAESTRA?
He killed his brother and founded Rome.
Who is Romulus?
This artery is named for the Latin term for "neck," and was shouted when the crowd demanded death.
What is the Jugular?
He was the legendary author of The Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
He appropriately had fields outside of Rome dedicated to the the training of soldiers and other militia exercises.
Who is Mars/Ares?
This was the term for the system used to heat the warmer baths.
What is the hypocaust (system)?
One wove, one measured, one cut. They determined every mortal's time here on earth.
Who are the Fates (Morai)?
This was the class of gladiator who used a net and trident.
What is the RETIARIUS?
King Leonidas of Sparta led the 100 during this battle, that didn't end well for any of those men.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
He was a strictly Roman god and his domain was endings, beginnings, doorways, and borders. Our first month takes its name from him.
Who is Janus?
These tools were used to clean oil and dirt off of bathers, usually by slaves.
What are strigils?
He stole fire from Olympus to give to humans. His punishment had to do with an eagle and his liver.
Who is Prometheus?
In addition to gladiator matches, "venatio" were also held in the arena, the Latin term for this.
What is a (animal) hunt?
He was the "Father of Modern Medicine"
Who is Hippocrates?
To the Greeks, a vegetable god. To the Romans, a male fertility god with a large...member.
Who is Priapus?
This Roman author left an account about his "noisy neighbors" because he lived nearby to a bathhouse.
Who was Seneca?
For the ancient Romans, there was no heaven. If you had lived an honorable life, you may find your soul here in the Underworld.
What is Elysium?
This was the neighboring town to Pompeii that lost many citizens when a riot broke out and violence ensued.
What is Nuceria?
Statesman who was considered the "Father of Athenian Democracy"
Who is Pericles?
She mothered the original Olympians, and was horrified when husband Cronus swallowed her children.
Who is Rhea?
This was the title of the person with the unpleasant job of plucking hairs from customers.
What is a depilator?
Hephaestus considered this animal sacred to him; somewhat comical but sturdy, just like him.
What is the donkey?
He was the emperor more concerned with being a famous gladiator that "suitably" ruling Rome, and it led to his downfall.
Who was Commodus?
This was the animal that the Greeks originally named the "river horse"
What is the hippopotamus?