Romans in STEM
Roman engineering is perhaps most famous for these arch-shaped structures which carried water from the mountains to Roman cities.
What are aqueducts?
This 2024 sequel movie set during the Roman Empire features Pedro Pascal and Paul Mescal.
What is Gladiator II?
What is hospes?
Roman baths were constructed using this reddish-orange ceramic material.
What is terracotta?
Julius Caesar wrote this book, a history detailing his conquest and genocide of the people of what is now France.
What is De Bello Gallico?
Ancient Roman astronomers named this planet after a Roman psychopomp and god of travelers.
What is Mercury?
This 2000 film, starring Russell Crowe as the betrayed general Maximus, takes place during the reign of Emperor Commodus and became a massive hit, winning five Academy Awards.
What is Gladiator?
In Brazilian Portuguese, the word "você" means you informally and in Iberian Portuguese, means you formally but comes from this Latin word meaning y'all.
What is vos?
After entering the cold baths, Romans would enter this bath which lends its name to word we use to describe water that is neither hot nor cold.
What is the Tepidarium (tepid)?
This most famous Roman poet leads Dante through hell in Inferno.
Who is Virgil?
This Ancient Greek mathematician is famous for a type of geometry
Who is Euclid?
In the 1953 film Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and depicted her infamous affair with Julius Caesar and later this man, with whom she killed herself.
Who is Marc Antony?
The Italian word capisce, meaning "to understand," comes from the Latin word capio, capere, cēpī, captus, meaning this.
What is to seize or capture?
After undressing, this was the first room a person would enter in a bathhouse and would be a popular sight for a certain type of TikTok challenge today.
What is the Frigidarium (cold bath)?
This Roman poet wrote Metamorphoses (not Kafka's Metamorphosis), documenting many classic Greek and Roman myths.
Who is Ovid?
Ancient Roman physicians would use parts of this flower to produce opium and use it as a painkiller
What is a poppy?
This 1960 epic film tells the story of a titular gladiator, played by Kirk Douglas, who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
What is Spartacus?
The Spanish word "ya," meaning "already," is from this Latin word, which can translate the same way
What is iam?
This type of Roman bath was often built near public places, where citizens could relax, socialize, and even exercise before or after bathing.
What are thermae?
It seems that Madeleine Miller, writer of The Song of Achilles and Circe, is inspired by this supposedly blind and illiterate Greek poet.
Who is Homer?
Soranus of Ephesos wrote a guide for midwives and wet nurses entitled this, which is still a medical specialty and is derived from the Ancient Greek word for "woman."
What is Gynecology?
Ben Hur won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture, in 1960 and has a famous scene in which the titular character competes in a chariot race in this stadium.
What is the Circus Maximus?
The Catalan word "llibre", meaning this, comes from a Latin word with a similar spelling and meaning.
What is a book?
What is exercise?
The Roman historian Livy wrote an expansive history of Rome titled this phrase which accompanied any Roman date.
What is Ab Urbe Condita?