| A | B |
|---|
| 80 A.D. | time of Ecce Romani stories |
| 79 A.D. | eruption of Mt. Vesuvius |
| Baiae | resort town on the Bay of Naples |
| Campania | area of Italy around Naples |
| thermal springs | feature of the Campania region |
| Romance languages | French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian |
| Germanic languages | English is one |
| 60% | amount of English words that derive from Latin |
| 1066 A.D. | Norman French conquer England and bring French (Latinate) words into English |
| 1550 A.D. | period of Renaissance during which scholars used Latin words in their writing and to label new discoveries |
| Roman books | made from papyrus |
| quill pens | made from feathers |
| ink | made from octopus, soot, or dye |
| writing tablets | made from wood and wax |
| stylus | sharp instrument to write into wax |
| codex | pages are bound together, like a modern book |
| Eucleides | Greek slave who educates the children |
| Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus | ancestor of Cornelius who won over Carthage in 2nd Punic War |
| the historical Cornelia | mother of the Gracchi, respected Roman woman |
| Roman father | has power of life and death over his family |
| Roman mother | runs house, teaches daughter, spins wool |
| Sextus's father | soldier in Asia |
| tunica | long white t-shirt, all people wore it |
| stola | dress |
| palla | women wore it outdoors |
| toga pura | all white toga worn by adult men |
| toga virilis | another name for the toga pura |
| toga praetexta | toga with purple stripe worn by senators and boys |
| bulla | good luck charm worn by children |
| lares and penates | household gods |
| soleae | sandals |
| Aeneas | Trojan hero who founded area of Rome |
| Anchises | father of Aeneas (Venus was his mother) |
| Paris | took Helen; picked Venus as most beautiful goddess |
| Priam | King of Troy |
| Helen | Queen of Sparta |
| Menelaus | Helen's husband, King of Sparta |
| Agamemnon | King of Mycenae, most powerful of all the Greeks |
| Homer | told of the Trojan War in the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Trojan War | Greeks vs. Trojans; Greeks won |
| Ulysses | (aka Odysseus) |
| feet whitened with chalk | meant a slave was a new arrival from abroad |
| vilicus | overseer of slaves; Davus' position |
| mangones | slave-dealers |
| slave placard | contains information on countryof origin, skills, etc. |
| Eucleides | Greek slave who was educated and therefore sold for a higher price than Davus |
| insulae | apartment buildings in the city for poor people |
| domus | house in city for wealthy people |
| villa rustica | farm and country house (one structure that contained living quarters for family and livestock) |
| area | open space for processing grain |
| villa urbana | country estate with separate house for very wealthy people |
| villae maritimae | houses by the sea |
| atrium | entrance hall |
| hortus | garden |
| cubicula | bedrooms |
| patria potestas | the power of a father over his household |
| paterfamilias | the father who was the supreme head of the family |
| familia | family, which included wife, children, and slaves |
| manus | full legal power od a man over his wife |
| 12 | number of major gods and goddesses who lived on Mt. Olympus |
| fugitivus | runaway slave |
| FUG | what was branded on a runaway slave's forehead |
| manumissio | process of freeing a slave |
| libertus | "freed man" (former slave) |
| pilleus | felt caps that former slaves wore |
| Jupiter | King of the gods |
| Juno | Queen of the gods |
| Apollo | god of the sun, music, healing |
| Mars | god of war |
| Vesta | goddess of the hearth |
| Minerva | goddess of war and wisdom |
| Mercury | god of travel, messenger god |
| Diana | goddess of the hunt and moon |
| Neptune | god of the sea |
| Venus | goddess of love |
| Ceres | goddess of grain |
| Vulcan | god of fire |
