Ancient Rome People Quiz

A legendary hero from Troy who led the Trojans to a new city after they were defeated in the Trojan War.

• Aeneas

• Romulus and Remus

• Odysseus

• Cincinnatus

A rival of Marius who defeated him and took control of Rome

• Julius Caesar

• Cincinnatus

• Lucius Cornelius Sulla

• Galen

The general from Carthage who lead an attack on Rome in 218 BC; his army was defeated by the Romans

• Sulla

• Caesar

• Hannibal

• Ovid

The first famous dictator in ancient Rome who gained power in 458 BC

• Marius

• Sulla

• Caesar

• Cincinnatus

A Roman general who forced the Senate to declare him Dictator for life

• Marc Antony

• Lucius Cornelius Sulla

• Julius Caesar

• Gaius Marius

Emperor under whom the Romans conquered most of the island of Britain

• Augustus

• Clovis

• Hadrian

• Caesar

Emperor who divided the Roman Empire into two parts

• Hadrian

• Ovid

• Clovis

• Diocletian

Author who wrote the Aeneid, about the founding of Rome

• Homer

• Ovid

• Virgil

• Galen

Caesar’s adopted son and first Emperor of Rome(also known as Octavian)

• Marc Antony

• Augustus

• Gaius Marius

A gifted Roman philosopher and orator who wanted power to return to the Senate

• Cincinnatus

• Caesar

• Cleopatra VII

• Cicero