A | B |
stola | floor-length strapped dress |
palla | female outdoor wear |
toga virilis | male city and travel attire |
bulla | male child's protective locket |
soleae | sandals |
Lares and Penates | household gods |
Aeneas | Trojan founder of the Roman race |
Vergil | Poet of Aeneid |
Hector | Trojan Hero of Trojan War |
Achilles | Greek Hero of Trojan War |
Creusa | Aeneas' Trojan Wife |
Dido | Aeneas' Carthaginian Wife |
Lavinia | Aeneas' Latin wife |
Latinus | King of Latium |
paterfamilias | head of household |
familia | Roman household |
patria potestas | the father's power |
Jupiter | Zeus |
Juno | Hera |
Mars | Ares |
Vulcan | Hephaestus |
Minerva | Athena |
Neptune | Poseidon |
Ceres | Demeter |
Diana | Artemis |
Apollo | Apollo |
Mercury | Hermes |
Vesta | Hestia |
Venus | Aphrodite |
fugitivus | runaway slave |
manumissio | freeing of a slave |
libertus | a freed slave |
nomen | clan name |
praenomen | (male) first name |
cognomen | family name) |
Aeneas | Founder of Lavinium |
Ascanius/Iulus | Founder of Alba Longa |
Romulus and Remus | Founder of Rome |
Rhea Silvia | Mother of Romulus and Remus |
Livy | Historian of Rome's Founding |