Exam 24: Legends of Early Rome

What are the two main stories about the quarrel in which Romulus kills Remus?

Rome was ruled by how many kings after its foundation in 753 BC?

A cliff on the Capitoline Hill was used a place for the execution of traitors, and was named after _______.

What is the name of the shepherd who discovered the she-wolf and the abandoned Romulus and Remus?

Wy does Lucretia kill herself?

Which Roman fought on the side of the Volsci against Rome, relenting only when his wife, carrying their sons, and his mother ran between the armies on the battlefield and begged him to stop?

Which of the following aspects of Roman religion were adapted from the Etruscans?

What does the surviving Horatius brother do when he returns from the battle against the Curiatii?

After Romulus became a god, he was worshipped as the ancient numen _______.

The narrative details of the story of the infants Romulus and Remus recall which examples from other myth traditions?

According to a popular saying, _______ found Rome a city of brick but left it a city of marble.

Some emperors, such as Caligula, Nero, and Commodus, suffered what dreadful sentence after they died?

The usual story is that Aeneas died in battle three years after founding what town?

Which three monuments did Augustus build in the Campus Martius?

Amulius drove out his brother _______ and then killed all his sons.

What horrible act cemented the wicked reputation of Tullia I, wife of Tarquin the Proud?

From where did the Romans under Romulus get the women in order to insure that the Romans could grow in number?

A deified emperor was not officially a true god, but could become a _______ by a vote of the Senate after he died.

What, technically, was a triumph?

Who bravely defended a wooden bridge against the Etruscans until the bridge could be chopped down-forcing him to swim back to safety in full armor?