History
The city of Rome was said to be founded by Romulus in what year?
753 BCE
This Roman god of the sea was equivalent to the Greek god Poseidon.
Who is Neptune?
This Latin case is primarily used for the indirect object of a sentence.
What is the dative case?
This large island south of Italy was the first Roman province.
What is Sicily?
This Roman building was used for gladiator games and could hold tens of thousands of spectators.
What is Colosseum?
This general famously crossed the Rubicon River in 49 BCE, sparking a civil war.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This Roman god of agriculture gave his name to a festival that inspired the word.
What is Saturnalia?
In the sentence Puellae librum legunt, “librum” is in this case.
What is the accusative case?
This famous volcano buried the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 CE.
This Roman poet wrote the Aeneid, an epic about the founding of Rome.
Who is Virgil?
This Roman leader became the first emperor after the fall of the Republic.
Who is Augustus?
The month of June was named after a certain deity.
Who is Iunis/Juno?
Latin adjectives must agree with nouns in these three ways.
What are gender, number, and case?
This famous road helped Rome control Italy and is still partially visible today.
What is Via Appia/Appian Way?
This group of two officials served as the highest leaders of the Roman Republic.
What are consuls?
This emperor built a famous wall across northern Britain to mark the edge of the empire.
Who is Hadrian?
This river god guided souls to the underworld and shares his name with the river separating the living from the dead.
Who is the Styx?
This type of pronoun points to a specific person or thing, like hic or ille.
What is a demonstrative?
This mountain range runs down the center of Italy.
What are the Apennine Mountains?
This Roman numeral represents the number 50.
What is L?
This was the war between the titans, cyclopses, and the hecatonchires.
What is Titanomachia?
This Roman god was the god of doors, gates, and transitions, and Mr. Owens' favorite.
Who is Janus?
In the sentence Pueri in horto ludebant, the verb “ludebant” is in this tense and person.
What is what is imperfect, third person plural?
This city was destroyed along with Pompeii when a volcano erupted in 79 CE.
What is Herculaneum?
If the flame goes out the one deemed responsible is buried alive.