UNIT 5: Stages 9-10 Myths and Culture

Question 1

D.M.

Answer 1

dīs mānibus (for the divine spirits of the dead)

Question 2

A.U.C.

Answer 2

Roman system for dating years (ab urbe conditā) which was founded in 753 BCE

Question 3

Via Appia

Answer 3

The long road that connected Rome to Brundisium

Question 4

Aqueduct

Answer 4

A large structure that used gravity to transport water

Question 5

Pantheon

Answer 5

Roman temple decorated with a dome and dedicated to “all the gods”

Question 6

Asclepius

Answer 6

God of healing whom Zeus struck down with a thunderbolt when he started resurrect the dead

Question 7

Eos

Answer 7

Goddess of dawn

Question 8

Tithonus

Answer 8

Lover of Eos, given immortality but not eternal youth. Ultimately turned into a grasshopper

Question 9

Eris

Answer 9

Goddess of strife who started the Trojan War by throwing an apple labelled “for the most beautiful”

Question 10

Eros

Answer 10

God of desire (“Cupid” to the Romans)

Question 11

The Fates

Answer 11

Three goddesses to spin, measure, and cut the thread of every mortal life

Question 12

The Furies

Answer 12

Three goddesses who punish humans for particularly heinous crimes

Question 13

Phaethon

Answer 13

Son of Helios who was killed after borrowing his father’s chariot

Question 14

Iris

Answer 14

Goddess of the rainbow

Question 15

The Muses

Answer 15

Nine goddesses who were the patrons of music, dancing, poetry, and literature

Question 16

Pan

Answer 16

Satyr god of shepherds and flocks