Greek Mythology
This King of the Gods wields a thunderbolt and rules from Mount Olympus
Zeus
Legend says these twin brothers, suckled by a wolf, founded Rome in 753 B.C.
Romulus and Remus
This teacher of Plato was sentenced to death by hemlock for "corrupting the youth."
Socrates
This temple on the Athenian Acropolis was dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Parthenon
This blind poet is credited with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey
Homer
This titan was punished by Zeus to hold up the celestial heavens for eternity.
Atlas
This Roman leader was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.
Julius Caesar
He founded the Lyceum and was a personal tutor to Alexander the Great
Aristotle
These massive stone structures served as tombs for Egyptian Old Kingdom Pharos
Pyramids
In the Iliad, this nearly invincible Greek hero had a single vulnerable spot: his heel
Achilles
She was the goddess of wisdom and war, born from Zeus's forehead.
Athena
This Carthaginian general famously crossed the Alps with war elephants.
Hannibal
This stoic philosopher and "good emperor" wrote the personal journal Meditations.
Marcus Aurelius
This Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian feature is the topmost part of a column
Capital
Virgil wrote this Roman epic to connect Rome's origins to the fall of Troy.
Aeneid
This three headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld
Cerberus
This 200 year period of peace and stability began under Augustus.
Pax Romana
This allegory by Plato describes prisoners in a dark room seeing shadows on the wall.
Allegory of the Cave
This Hellenistic marble sculpture depicts a Trojan priest and his sons battling sea serpents
Laocoon and his sons
This Mesopotamian King sought immortality in the world's oldest surviving epic
Gilgamesh
He was the god of the vine, wine, and ritual madness, known to the Romans as Bacchus.
Dionysus
This cunctator (delayer) used scorched-earth tactics to avoid direct battle with Hannibal.
Quintus Fabius Maximus
Zeno of Citium founded this school of philosophy that prizes logic and self control.
Stoicism
This Greek sculptor created the massive gold and ivory statue of Zeus at Olympia.
Phidias
Sophocles wrote this play about a king who Thebes who unknowingly kills his father.
Oedipus Rex