Misc sport
This player is the all-time leading Premier League goal scorer with 260 goals.
Who is Alan Shearer?
While in the Underworld, Aeneas attempts and fails three times to embrace his father's mournful shade, mirroring this Greek Epic Hero.
Who is Odysseus?
The small figure of Cupid riding a dolphin at Augustus's ankle serves this specific dual purpose, one mythological and one structural. (Prima Porta)
What is referencing Venus AND hiding the structural support?
The dome of the Pantheon uses this specific architectural feature to distribute weight and reduce the amount of concrete needed towards the crown. (Pantheon)
What are coffers?
Augustus introduced the Julian Laws (Leges Iuliae) to encourage this specific behavior among the Roman elite.
What is Marriage and Childbearing?
Lasting 11 hours and 5 minutes which sport did players compete over 3 days
What is tennis?
Aeneas’s shield, forged by Vulcan, depicts this major future Roman victory.
What is the Battle of Actium?
The bust's style is characterized by the polished marble of the face contrasting with the rough texture of the hair and beard, achieved by a technique called this. (Bust of Commodus)
What is the Drill Technique?
The relief on the west façade depicts Aeneas making a sacrifice, a visual connection to this central Roman virtue exemplified by Augustus. (Ara Pacis Augustae)
What is Pietas?
In 23BCE, Augustus gained the power of imperium proconsulare maius and this specific lifetime tribunician power.
What is Tribunicia Potestas?
The youngest player to ever score in a World Cup tournament was Pelé at just [ANSWER] years old in 1958.
What is 17?
The second six books of the poem (Books 7-12) famously mirror this specific epic of Homer, focusing on war and battle.
What is the Iliad?
The Bust of Philip the Arab contrasts with earlier idealised portraits by emphasising this physical quality, a deliberate return to the Republican Roman style. (Bust of Philip)
What is Age or Maturity?
The structure was built to carry water to this major Roman colony city, located miles away. (Pont du Guard)
What is Nîmes?
Augustus suffered one of his worst military defeats in 9CE in this forested region of Germania, losing three legions.
What is the Teutoburg Forest?
The first Olympic games took place in this year
This latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things", can be used to describe how the Aeneid begins.
What is in media res?
This is the specific year the statue was discovered at the villa of Augustus's wife, Livia, just outside Rome. (Prima Porta)
What is 1863CE?
The structure was primarily built using this relatively inexpensive local stone, distinguished by its porous, yellowish-white colour. (Colosseum)
What is Travertine?
This Latin inscription details Augustus's accomplishments, providing a first-person account of his reign.
What is the Res Gestae Divi Augusti?
The Tyne–Wear derby is between these two clubs
Who are Sunderland A.F.C and Newcastle United?
The term used to describe the Aeneid as a consciously authored and written epic, as opposed to one rooted in oral tradition.
What is a Secondary Epic?
The beard and hair are treated with an abundance of drilled curls and deeply carved shadows, a feature that visually links the bust to this earlier, heavily detailed Greek sculptural style. (Bust of Commodus)
What is Antonine Baroque?
The column's base serves as the designated burial chamber for the ashes of this Imperial family. (Trajan's column)
Who are Trajan and Plotina (or the Emperor and his wife)?
Augustus temporarily exiled this member of his own family, his daughter, for violating the moral laws he championed.
Who is Julia the Elder?