ENH251 Ancient Rome

The Egyptian goddess _______ had a cult following in Rome, especially among courtesans and the lower classes.

When angry____ sent lightning flaming from the sky with torrents of rain, King Numa—the second king of Rome—was alarmed.

Romulus & Remus were cast adrift in a basket rather than being drowned in the Tiber River, & were suckled to health by a

Juno, Ceres, and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. All three were major Roman goddesses, but Ceres, was rarely depicted

Cybele played a key role in the foundation of Rome: she gave Aeneas her sacred_______ to build his ships

________initially joined the fight, but his slain cousin, Hector, called on him in a dream to found a new Trojan city.

Authors depict the Sibyl in 3 ways: as a young woman loved by Apollo, at _____ years old, & elderly wishing for death

Infanticide by means of exposure was commonplace in ancient societies.

Roman mythology absorbed stories of the Great Mother, Cybele, from Anatolia and of the Egyptian god________

_________ is mentioned in Greek sources as a king of Cyprus who fell in love with a cult statue of Aphrodite.

Romans appropriated the myths of the ancient ___, whose colonies, culture, & myths aligned with their own.

The____ Vestal Virgins, Rome’s only female priesthood, tended the fire of Vesta, the symbolic hearth of the city

When Narcissus was 16, he was seen by t he nymph______, who fell in love with him.

The Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva) developed from the Etruscan gods who later aligned the Roman Zeus, Hera &

The ability to banish evil would prove useful in Cardea’s role as the protector of ______.

Psyche’s final task was to enter ______ and fetch a jar of beauty from its queen, Proserpina.