Vocab
Palaestra
What is an exercise ground or meeting place.
Roman children used these to write and to write on during school lessons. (two different things)
stylus and wax tablet
This is the Roman goddess of love and the mother of Cupid.
Who was Venus?
Dama est tabernarius.
Dama is a tavern owner.
exspectat
What is waits/is waiting?
Odysseus/Ulysses blinded a Cyclops by this name.
Who was Polyphemus?
This was the king of the gods who had the symbol of an eagle?
Who was Jupiter?
Magister in taberna sedet.
The teacher sits in the tavern.
What is also?
This volcano buried Herculaneum in 79 CE.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
This was the god of medicine and the sun.
Who was Apollo?
Statua est fons.
The statue is a fountain.
What is sleeps/is sleeping?
Roman students learned in a building. True or false.
False.
This was the goddess of the harvest and the mother of Proserpina.
Who was Ceres?
Ecce! Mater in via dormit.
Look! Mother sleeps in the road.
Advenit.
What is arrives/is arriving?
These 2 towns were destroyed by a volcano in 79 CE.
What were Pompeii and Herculaneum?
This is the god of volcanoes and blacksmiths.
Who was Vulcan?
Athleta quoque in palaestra errat.
The athlete also wanders in the exercise grounds.