 |
| 1 | |
On what river is Rome located? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 2 | |
What people invented the alphabet used by the Romans and what we call Roman numerals? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 3 | |
What three-word expression describes the Roman government's pacification of the masses with free bread and public amusements? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 4 | |
What is the term for the combining of the rites and principles of different religions? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 5 | |
What language was used in Rome? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 6 | |
Name Rome's two greatest comic playwrights. |
| | |
|
|
|
| 7 | |
What Roman poet wrote On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 8 | |
What Roman poet is known for love poems about inner feelings of desire, disappointment, and jealousy? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 9 | |
What famous Roman writer and public figure wrote letters, speeches, and philosophical tracts? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 10 | |
Who wrote the Aeneid? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 11 | |
What is considered the literary masterpiece of Rome? Its stories tell of travel, love, fighting, intrigue, and the prototype of the faithful leader who would not be diverted from his destined path. |
| | |
|
|
|
| 12 | |
What famous Roman text tells more than two hundred Greek and Roman myths and legends in which people change into other forms? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 13 | |
Who wrote it? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 14 | |
Name the emperor who wrote a famous masterpiece of Stoicism. |
| | |
|
|
|
| 15 | |
Name the book he wrote. |
| | |
|
|
|
| 16 | |
Name the famous slave who became a great philosopher of Stoicism. |
| | |
|
|
|
| 17 | |
What was the last major school of philosophy in the ancient Western world? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 18 | |
What is at the center of the semicircle of wedge-shaped stones that locks an arch in place? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 19 | |
What architectural form is made by rotating an arch in a full circle? |
| | |
|
|
|
| 20 | |
Name the Roman building that was dedicated to all the gods. This round temple has an oculus or eye open to the sky. |
| | |
|
|