Foreign Geography
This romance language is primarily spoken in only one, large South American country.
What is Portuguese?
In Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles, the Iliad is retold from the perspective of Patroclus, who is killed by this Trojan while pretending to be Achilles.
Who is Hector?
Did you attend previous meetings? The month and day on which the holiday Lupercalia fell.
What is February 15th?
This word meaning "poor" comes from the Latin word pecunia meaning money.
This work of prose was written by Julius Caesar about his conquest in modern-day France.
What is De Bello Gallico?
What is Paris?
The name of the religious organization in Frank Herbert's Dune, that literally translates to "he/she/it will have waged well."
What is the Bene Gesserit?
The year Rome was founded, which the Romans marked as the 1st year.
What is 753 B.C.E.?
Procrastination is derived from the Latin word cras meaning this (the opposite of heri).
What is "tomorrow"?
In Virgil's Aeneid, this Carthaginian woman kills herself out of grief when Aeneas leaves her.
Who is Dido?
What is Hispania?
In Rick Riordan's The Titan's Curse, the character Nico di Angelo loses his sister who had recently devoted herself to this goddess of hunting and childbirth.
Who is Artemis?
The Kalends of each month fell on this date.
What is the first?
"Saute" is derived from the Latin word salio meaning this.
What is "jump"?
In 29 BC, this author published the Epodes. In 23 BC, they published the Odes, and, in 20 BC, they wrote their first book of Epistles.
Who is Horace?
Mauretania was a Roman territory in what are now these two North African countries that were colonized by France in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively.
What are Morocco and Algeria?
The video game "Hades" follows this obscure mythological figure often heavily associated with Dionysus.
Who is Zagreus?
The Ides of March fall on the 15th, but the Ides of April fall on this date.
What is the 13th?
A happy word whose name derives from the Latin for "blood."
What is "sanguine"?
Lucan wrote this epic poem about the war between Caesar and Pompey.
What is Pharsalia (De Bello Civili)?
The war described in the Iliad took place in a city in what is now this country.
What is Turkey?
In Harry Potter, this is the spell used to extinguish light from one's wand and means "night" in Latin.
What is nox?
According to the Romans, the Nones fell this many days before the Ides every month.
What is nine?
"Induce" and "conduct" are both derived from a Latin word with this meaning.
What is to lead?
This author of Ars Amatoria and the Metamorphoses was exiled from Rome for "carmen et error."
Who is Ovid?