antiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europelustrum - a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census catacomb - an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome) circus - (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games galley - (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars pantheon - (antiquity) a temple to all the gods toga virilis - (ancient Rome) a toga worn by a youth as a symbol of manhood and citizenship humour, humor - (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" dithyramb - (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) pean, paean - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) torch race - (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next Bacchus - (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus augur, auspex - (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy centurion - (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers choragus - (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus gladiator - (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat pontifex - a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome procurator - (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman emperor to manage finance and taxes sibyl - (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" age, historic period - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" Roman - of or relating to or characteristic of Rome (especially ancient Rome); "Roman architecture"; "the old Roman wall" |