| A | B |
|---|
| populares | represented the lower classes |
| optimates | upper class, senators |
| Gracchi | land reformers, represented the people, executed |
| novus homo | "new man" first person in family to get elected to office |
| cena | dinner |
| ientaculum | breakfast |
| prandium | lunch |
| atrium | original site for meals |
| triclinium | room with 3 couches/dining room |
| lecti | couches |
| mappae | napkins to put leftovers in |
| liquamen/garum | fish sauce |
| gustatio | appetizer |
| secundae mensae | dessert |
| commissatio | drinking party |
| arbiter bibendi | master of drinking |
| tali | knucklebones |
| Venus | best throw, all dice a different number |
| canis | worst throw of dice, all ones |
| Cicero | famous speaker, spoke against Catiline |
| Julius Caesar | conquered Gaul and attacked Britain |
| ludus litterarius | grammar school, equivalent to our elementary school |
| magister ludi | elementary school age teacher |
| paedagogus | tutor, carried books, supervised behavior |
| grammaticus | secondary school teacher |
| Vergil | wrote the Aeneid, epic which glorifies Rome |
| rhetor | teacher of public speaking |
| Second Triumvirate | Octavian, Antony, Lepidus |
| pax romana | period of peace prosperity and construction during Augustus's reign |
| Augustus | title awarded Octavian by the Senate (means "venerable") |
| Purpose of Hercules' Labors | punishment for killing wife and kids |
| Eurystheus | cowardly king who told Hercules what his labors were |
| cause of Hercules's death | poisoned blood on a coat burned him |
| Jason | sought the golden fleece |
| Medea | witch who helped Jason get his quest, killed their two children |
| Harpies | bird woman monsters Jason had to go through |
| Argo | Jason's ship |
