Ancient Rome Lesson 1 Vocabulary

great Trojan hero who fled Troy for Italy in a journey told in Virgil’s Aeneid

• Achilles

• Aeneas

• Romulus

• Cincinnatus

legendary twin brothers who are said to have founded Rome

• Romulus and Remus

• Zeus and Poseidon

• Mario and Luigi

• Roman and Remy

Rome's public meeting place

• Colosseum
• Agora

• Pantheon
• Forum

language spoken by the ancient Romans

• Latin
• Italian

• Roman

• Greek