Emperors
Latin Animals
Latin or Greek Roots
Roman Writers & Thinkers
Roman Household
100
He was the first Roman Emperor and Vergil fanboy
Augustus (Octavian)
100
Bear
Ursa
100
Benefactor
Latin (bene facere)
100
Frenemy of Augustus and author of The Aeneid
Vergil
100
Aeneas carried these household gods (along with Anchises and Ascanius) while fleeing from Troy
Penates
200
This man supposedly killed his mother, Agrippina
Nero
200
Wolf
Lupus
200
Anachronism
Greek (ana-khronos)
200
This man was exiled from Rome for writing Ars Amatoria just before he had finished Metamorphoses
Ovid
200
These rooms were used for rest, reading, writing, and private meetings
Cubiculum
300
This second emperor was named after an important river in Rome
Tiberius
300
Fox
Vulpes
300
Panic
Greek (panikos, after Pan)
300
This stoic philospher emperor wrote The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
300
This room was used for large dinner parties
Triclinium
400
This "mad" emperor demanded worship as a living god
Caligula
400
Snake
Serpens, anguis
400
Martial
Latin (after Mars)
400
This man wrote about the eruption of Vesuvius in his letters to Tacitus
Pliny the Younger
400
The entrance hall of a Roman domus
Vestibulum
500
This terrible emperor was the basis for Joaquin Phoenix's character in Gladiator
Commodus
500
Goose
Anser
500
Claustrophobia
Both!
Claustrum (Latin)
Phobos (Greek)
500
This poet under Augustus' rule is most famous for his Odes
Horace
500
This structure was designed to channel rain from the roof, usually located in the center of the domus' atrium
Impluvium