a - k. in the year of our lord auc/ab urbe condita ce/common era
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A - K
CLELevel Intro
In the year of our Lord
AUC/Ab Urbe Condita
CE/Common Era
AD/anno Domini
Before noon
AM/Ante Meridiem
A tragically weak or vulnerable point
Achilles’ Heel
To the point of (sea) sickness
ad nauseam
Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea
Things to be done
agenda
Agwra/forum
agora/forum
Food and drink of the gods
ambrosia & nectar
Aphrodite/Venus
DelosDelph
i
Apollo/Apollo
ErisWedding of Peleus and Thetis
apple of discord
aqueduct
Arachne
God of War
Ares/Mars
Cretan PrincessSome-time bride of Theseus, Dionysus
Ariadne
Delos
Artemis/Diana
Mentes, Parthenos
Athena/Minerva
Odyssey, Athena goes to Telemachus disguised as the family friend, Mentes.
“Mentes” tells T. to call a meeting to remove his mother’s (Penelope) suitors and come with “him” to Pylos and Sparta to learn of his father, Odysseus.
Athena/Minerva
Athens/Acropolis
TitanFather of the
Hesperides, Calypso
Atlas
Entry room of a house or buildingAtrus-a-um - black
atrium
OctavianGreat nephew & heir
of Caesar31, near Actium on
Ionian Sea, defeats Antony and Cleopatra
27, Augustus, the First Emperor
Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar
Ides of March 44 BC
Caesar
Seize the dayQuam credulens minimun postero
carpe diem
DidoPunic WarsHannibal
Carthage
Beware of the dog
cave canem
Pluto’s pet
Cerberus
Ferryman of the Styx
Charon
Circus Maximus
Flavian Amphitheatre
Colosseum
Co-head of Republican Government, two per annum
consul
Horn of plenty
cornucopia
Son of Uranus and GaiaKing of the Titans
Cronus/Saturn
Also sons of Uranus and GaiaLocked in Tartarus, freed by SaturnPolyphemus
Cyclops
ApolloThe
PythonPythia
Delphic Oracle
Goddess of Harvest
Demeter/Ceres
Dionysus/Bacchus
Vergil, lettuce
e pluribus unum
Many people like food for breakfast e.g. eggs
e.g./exempli gratia
I
ego
The home of the blessed
Elysian Fields/Elysium
epic
God of DesireSon of Aphrodite/Venus
Eros/Cupid
Ides of March, 44 BCKai su, teknon
Et tu, Brute?
And the other (things)
etc./et cetera
From the books
ex libris
Clotho spins itLachesis
measures itAtropos cuts it
Fates, moirae, parcae
The end (of a scene)Finisterre
finis
Fresh painting, accomplished on drying plaster
Matrix of tesserae
fresco/mosaic
Erinyes: Alecto, Tisiphone, Megaera
Euminides
furies
ColchisKing Aetees, Jason,
MedeaSimple gold panning or
an Allegory of Metallurgy?
Golden fleece
Stheno, Euryale and Medusa
Gorgons
UnderworldHusband to
Proserpina
Hades/Pluto
Carthaginian general, 2nd Punic WarElephantsCannaeZama, 202 BC
Hannibal
Man-killing HektorChampi0n of TroyDoppelganger of Achilles
Hector
Of Troy…but she’s actually Greek.
Helen
Sister /wife of ZeusMother of HephaestusEnemy of Aeneas
Hera/Juno
Strangled serpents
12 LaborsArgo
Heracles/Hercules
Messenger god
Hermes/Mercury
Goddess of the Hearth
Hestia/Vesta
Iliad, rageOdyssey,
manChios
Homer
1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000
I, V, X, L, C, D, M
That is (to say)
i.e./id est
Boy who flew too high & his inventor fatherEscape from CreteHubis
Icarus & Daedalus
15 March 44 BCUsually on the 13th
Kalends, nones, ides
Ides of March
Illion Illium= Troy2nd century BC,
Alexandria
Iliad
…And the Argonauts
ArgonauticaMedeaColchis
Jason
JuppiterJovial=sanguine, happy, ebullient
Jove, jovial