Keeping it in the Family
Parents of Agrippina
Agrippina the Elder & Germanicus
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
Who said "masculine despotism"?
Tacitus
Eruption Year
79 AD
Name the battle in 490 BCE where the Athenians defeated the Persians, halting their invasion during the first Persian War.
Battle of Marathon
Agrippina's Siblings
Nero, Drusus, Gaius, Drusilla and Livilla
What event occurred in AD 49?
Marriage to Claudius
Who wrote "Good fortune attend the Emperor Gaius and his sisters"?
Suetonius
68-69AD
Who were the members of the First Triumvirate in Rome?
Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
Brother in Law and alleged Lover
Lepidus
What goddess did Agrippina represent in the sestertius minted in AD 38
Securitas
Who wrote "... thus brings together on a single coin the three roles that brought her the greatest pride"?
Barrett
Name 4 spaces/rooms in a typical domus in Pompeii
Atrium, Triclinium, Peristyle, Tablinum, Cublica, Service areas (culina), Tabernae
Battle of Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea
Grandmothers
Julia and Antonia
Honours Nero bestowed (you need at least 3)
Allowed to listen to Senate hearings, 2 lictors, featuring on coinage, title of Augusta, priestess of the cult of the Divine Claudius, travel in a carpentum
Who wrote "By marrying her, Claudius could both right old wrongs and immeasurably reinforce his political position"?
Levick
Who wrote Satire X about the rioting in Rome after the execution of Sejanus?
Juvenal
Which ancient law code is one of the earliest and most complete legal codes from Mesopotamia?
Code of Hammurabi
Paternal Great Grandmother
Livia
The year Agrippina lost her influence over imperial finances after the demotion of Pallas
AD 55
Who wrote "We know ... that she re-established the fortune of the imperial family, which in all probability had been seriously compromised by the reckless expenditures of Messalina... a means of government and an instrument of power: the family possessed it (imperial wealth) in order to use of for the benefit of the state"?
Ferrero
What two buildings of the Via del Abbondanza in 2010 has parts collapse as a result of heavy rain and neglect?
The Schola Armatorum ('House of the Gladiators') and House of the Moralist
Who was the Athenian statesman responsible for the construction of the Parthenon and the promotion of Athenian democracy during its Golden Age?
Pericles