Mine is Not a Holy War

QUESTIONS.
1. What was the name of the Trojan hero regarded by the Romans as their
ancestor?
2. What was the name of the Latin city which was in fact as well as in legend, the
mother city of Rome?
3. Everyone knows that Romulus was the first King of Rome, but who was the
second?
4. What was the name of the college of priestesses devoted to the cult of Vesta,
goddess of the hearth and home?
5. What was the name of the precipice on the south-west corner of the Capitol,
from which traitors were thrown to their deaths?
6. What are the books of prophecy, first destroyed in 83 BC, replaced, and finally
destroyed in the 4th century AD.?
7. Who was the third King of Rome?
8. The Temple of Saturn in Rome, which was consecrated in 497 BC had a
secondary function.What was it?
9. What ‘event’ did Romulus organise in order to populate Rome?
10. Apart from the major deities, Romans also had many domestic gods who
protected their homes and belongings.What were they called?
11. What was the name of the wife of Tarquinius Collatinus whose rape by Sextus
son of the seventh King of Rome,Tarquinius Superbus led her to kill herself in
shame?
12. Can you name any of the three original tribes into which Rome was divided,
believed to date back to the time of Romulus?
13. Who was the Etruscan chief who besieged Rome in 6th century BC?
14. Who was the legendary one-eyed Roman warrior who held the Etruscans at
bay, until the bridge behind him was destroyed?
15. What was the Roman name for the spirits of the dead?

ANSWERS
1.Aeneas. 2.Alba Longa. 3. Numa. 4.The Vestal Virgins. 5.The Tarpeian Rock. 6.The
Sibylline Books. 7.Tullus Hostilius. 8.The State Treasury. 9.The Rape of the Sabine
Women. 10. Penates. 11. Lucretia. 12.The Luceres, the Ramnes and the Tities. 13. Lars
Porsena. 14. Horatius. 15.The Manes.