Volcanoes
For how many years have volcanoes menaced the Italian peninsula, from lardarello to pantelleria?
Tens of thousands of years
Who’s orders rumored to start Rome’s worst fire?
Emperor Nero
According to Ovid, Jove decided to _____ by flood.
Destroy the human race.
Romulus founded Rome when?
April 21, 753 BCE
How many volcanoes have menaced the Italian peninsula, from Lardarello to Pantelleria?
A dozen or more
Nero was reported to have sung a poem about the firey destruction of _______?
Troy
How long did the rain last that Jove created to flood the land?
Nine days
Although we tend to think of Rome as being a city of fired brick, limestone, and marble, most of the city’s inhabitants lived in _____.
Cheaply constructed apartment buildings.
The aeolian islands, just north of Sicily and off the toe of Italy. How many volcanoes are there?
Four volcanoes
Who did Nero try to shift the blame of the fire on?
The city’s Christians
When did the fire near Circus Maximus start?
July 19, 64 CE
How much taller is Mount Etna than Washington State’s Mount St.Helen
3,000 feet taller
Tacitus reported that Nero provided what for those displaced by the fire?
emergency housing and grain available at a reduced price.
During Augustus’ rule he had the Tiber cleared of trash and widened in an effort to diminish the _____.
Threat of the flooding
What is the name of the volcano that gives us the source of the word “volcano?”
Vulcano
How long was the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Two days long
On what day was the fire started near the Circus Maximus?
July 19, 64 CE.
How did the flooding of the Tiber river help save the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus?
When Amulius had his henchmen drown them, they couldn’t get close to the river so they left Romulus and Remus in a little puddle.
How many people were killed by Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18,1980?
57 people killed