People

Question 1

Aeneas

Answer 1

Brought Trojans to Italy and founded Lavinium according to Vergil

Question 2

Ascanius/Iulus

Answer 2

Aeneas’ son, founded Alba Longa according to Vergil

Question 3

Anchises

Answer 3

Father of Aeneas according to Vergil

Question 4

Romulus/Remus

Answer 4

Twin brothers; Romulus killed Remus and founded the city of Rome

1st King

Question 5

Numa

Numa Pompilius

Answer 5

King of Rome after Romulus; Wisest king, known for peace and religion

2nd King

Question 6

Tullus Hostilius

Answer 6

King of Rome after Numa; known for hostility

3rd King

Question 7

Ancus Marcius

Answer 7

King of Rome after Tullus; Grandson of Numa

4th King

Question 8

Tarquin

Tarquinius Priscus

Answer 8

King of Rome after Marcius; Etruscan from Tarquinii, clever and persuasive

5th King

Question 9

Servius Tullus

Answer 9

King of Rome after Tarquin Priscus; Etruscan, expanded boundaries, class systems, and created census

6th King

Question 10

Tarquin the Proud

Tarquinius Suberbus

Answer 10

Most ruthless and corrupt king of Rome

7th King

Question 11

Tullia

Answer 11

Second Tullia, conspired with Tarquin the Proud to kill off his wife and her husband and rule

Question 12

Sextus Tarquinius

Answer 12

Son of Tarquin the Proud; raped Lucretia and set off the Roman Revolution

Question 13

Lucretia

Answer 13

Killed herself to be an example for Roman women after having been raped by Sextus

Question 14

Brutus the Liberator

Lucius Decimus Brutus

Answer 14

Instigator of the Roman Revolution; pretended to be imbecilic to not seem like a threat, then avenged Lavinia, no more kings

Question 15

Mucius Scaevola

Answer 15

Hero; “Left-handed”, stuck his hand in the fire to be set free after captured

Question 16

Horatio Cocles

Answer 16

Hero; defender of the Sublician Bridge

Question 17

Polybius

Answer 17

Greek prisoner and scholar; wrote The Histories and famous for his Cycles of Government

Question 18

Hannibal

Hannibal Barcas

Answer 18

Carthaginian General; GGOAT (greatest general of all time) almost defeated Rome; only defeated because Scipio attacked Carthage instead of him

Question 19

Scipio

Cornelius Scipio Africanus

Answer 19

Hero; defeated Hannibal

Question 20

Cato the Elder

Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder

Answer 20

Historian, plebeian, soldier

Question 21

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus

Answer 21

Elder Grachii brother; lobbies for more land for the urban poor, killed by the Senate with no repercussions

Question 22

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus

Answer 22

Younger Grachii brother; tries to finish Lex Sempronia, but is assassinated as well; splits the Senate into populares and optimates

Question 23

Gaius Marius

Answer 23

Consul 7 times; super smart, created new recruiting base by getting rid of the land requirement and paid everyone out of pocket

Question 24

Saturninus

Answer 24

Tribune; alliance with Gaius Marius

Question 25

Sulla

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Answer 25

First dictator-for-life; “Sulla potuit, ergo non potero?”, gets the army on his payroll

Question 26

Pompey the Great

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Answer 26

Called “Little butcher boy”; puts down Sertorius’ Revolt with proconsular imperium having never been consul; first triumvirate (needs consulship)

Question 27

Crassus

Marcus Licinius Crassus

Answer 27

Equestrian Consul w/ Pompey, richest man in the world; first triumvirate (needs gloria)

Question 28

Sertorius

Answer 28

General/statesman; threw a revolt against Sulla’s dictatorship that was quelled by Pompey

Question 29

Sparticus

Answer 29

Slave and gladiator, who led a slave revolt; quelled by Pompey and Crassus

Question 30

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Answer 30

Greatest orator and persuasive voice and pen in Rome, arguably the greatest mind (vs. Julius Caesar)

Question 31

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

Answer 31

Dictator-for-life; realized the power of the pen for battles, wrote what was happening on horseback; first triumvirate (nothing but a name)

Question 32

Cato the Younger

Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger

Answer 32

Senator/Caesar’s nemesis; optimate who believes Caesar is the problem

Question 33

Marcus Brutus

Answer 33

Senator; Caesar’s friend, backstabs him, descendent of Brutus the Liberator

Question 34

Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius

Answer 34

General, fought beside Caesar; marries Cleopatra; second triumvirate (avenge Crassus)

Question 35

Cleopatra

Answer 35

Queen of Egypt; had a son with Caesar and married Antony

Question 36

Lepidus

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Answer 36

General; second triumvirate (needs gloria)

Question 37

Octavian/Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus

Answer 37

First emperor; adopted by Caesar, recognized the value of writing (went to school in Greece), changes his potestas (physical power) to auctoritas (power of authority)

Question 38

Pontius Pilatus

Answer 38

Govenor of Judea; ordered Jesus’ cruxifiction

Question 39

Jesus of Nazareth

Answer 39

Teacher and “radical” in Judea who angered the religious authorities so much he was killed (y’know, but came back)

Question 40

Annas and Calaphas

Question 41

Nero

Question 42

Tiberius

Answer 42

2nd Julio-Claudian Emperor; Augustus’ wife’s son; paranoid, introvert, indirectly appointed Pontius Pilate

Question 43

Gaius Caligula

Answer 43

3rd Julio-Claudian Emperor; nut, “tried” to conquer Britain

Question 44

Seneca

Question 45

Livia/Julia

Question 46

Agrippina I

Question 47

Agrippina II