Memorize these and you could recognize 40.5% of all Ancient Rome clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julius Caesar | 5 | He had affairs with Cassius' wife & Brutus' mother, giving the guys good reason to stab him |
| 2 | Augustus | 5 | In addition to ruling Rome as its first emperor, he ended the reign of the pharaohs |
| 3 | the Tiber | 4 | The 4th king of Rome, Ancus Marcus, is credited with building the 1st bridge across this river |
| 4 | Spartacus | 4 | In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film |
| 5 | = | 4 | = |
| 6 | the baths | 4 | Romans swam & got steamed at these popular meeting places; the ones of Diocletian were the largest |
| 7 | Hadrian's Wall | 3 | The Antoine Wall in Britain was further north than this more famous British Roman wall |
| 8 | the Senate | 3 | Created by the early kings as an advisory body, it originally numbered 100 |
| 9 | the Circus Maximus | 3 | Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum |
| 10 | Praetorian Guard | 3 | By 23 A.D. the prefect Sejanus became the sole commander of these elite protectors of the emperor |
| 11 | gladiators | 3 | The games featuring these fighters began in the 3rd Cent. B.C. as part of funeral ceremonies |
| 12 | Claudius | 3 | This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor |
| 13 | the Appian Way | 2 | Constructed in 312 B.C., this major Roman road originally ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua in Campania |
| 14 | March | 2 | The war season began with this month, then the 1st month of the year |
| 15 | Colosseum | 2 | The Flavian Amphitheater, popularly known as this, is the world's largest standing ancient amphitheater |
| 16 | Brutus | 2 | According to Shakespeare, this man who killed Julius Caesar killed himself by running upon his sword |
| 17 | Alexandria | 2 | With a population of about 750,000, this Egyptian city was the second largest in the Roman Empire |
| 18 | a net | 2 | A retiarius was a gladiator who tried to entangle his opponent in one of these |
| 19 | a battering ram | 2 | During a siege the Romans might have used an aries, one of these, to break into the enemy's fortifications |
| 20 | the plebeians | 2 | Around 445 B.C. this class of free citizens won the right to marry patricians |
| 21 | the Patricians | 2 | In early Rome the Plebeians were the lower class citizens & these were the upper class |
| 22 | the Pantheon | 2 | The temple of all the gods, it's the best preserved ancient building in Rome today |
| 23 | the kitchen | 2 | In a Roman domus or house, the atrium was the courtyard, the hortus was the garden & the culina, this |
| 24 | Augustus Romulus | 2 | Ironically, the last titular emperor of Rome bore this name, the same as Rome's founder |