Roman History
This man was the victim of the most important fratricide in Roman history, and shares a name with a professor of the dark arts.
Who is Remus?
After defeating this monster, Hercules wore its impenetrable skin as armor.
What is the Nemean Lion?
This is the hottest part of a Roman's trip to the bathhouse.
What is the caldarium?
Interest, absence, and future are all derivatives of this quintessential (i.e. essential) Latin verb.
What is sum, esse, fui, futurus?
This case is most often used as the subject of a clause, such as "I" in "I named my dog Agamemnon."
What is the nominative case?
This Carthaginian general, who shares a name with a fictional serial killer, brought elephants across the Alps and nearly won the second punic war against the Romans.
Who is Hannibal?
The two-headed brother of Cerberus whose run-in with Hercules went significantly worse.
Who is Orthus?
Romans placed these in the mouths of the deceased.
This U.S. state derives its name from a Latin word for forest--the same word from which a Romanian region popularly associated with vampires derives its own name.
What is Pennsylvania?
Given between case two and case four on some declension charts, this case forms the indirect object in a sentence such as "I gave him the ball."
What is the dative case?
Roman history is forever changed when Caesar enters Rome across this river, which shares a name with an off-road trim of the Jeep Wrangler.
What is the Rubicon?
This nephew of Hercules helped defeat the Hydra by cauterizing the stumps of its necks.
Who is Iolaus?
This purple toga was worn both by senators and by Roman boys, until they had come of age.
What is the toga praetexta?
Derived from the Latin word for silver, this country is also known for being the birthplace of Messi, Pope Francis, and Maradona.
What is Argentina?
The Latin language has this many cases.
What is seven?
This leader of the late Republic, who nearly shares a name with a fictional Italian plumber, served a record-breaking seven consulships.
Who is Gaius Marius?
These man-eating horses were captured by Hercules, who fed them their owner in order to calm them.
What are the Mares of Diomedes?
This amulet was worn by Roman boys until they celebrated their coming of age on Liberalia.
What is a bulla?
According to legend, this Spanish city takes its name from Hamilcar Barca, a Carthaginian general.
What is Barcelona?
This type of clause, which Vergil uses in the first line of the Aeneid, is featured below:
Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit.
What is a relative clause?
This man was the final emperor of the year of the five emperors, and also shares a name with a professor of the dark arts.
Who is Septimius Severus?
Hercules bludgeoned this music teacher to death with his own lyre after being punished for poor playing.
Who is Linus?
These ancient Roman professionals extracted teeth, performed bloodletting, and gave stylish haircuts.
Who are tonsores?
Derived from the Latin words for 'white' and 'oak' (quercus), this city is the most populous in the state of New Mexico.
What is Albuquerque?
Let possideat be this mood, possidet differs by being indicative:
omnia possideat, nōn possidet āera Mīnos.
What is subjunctive?