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 infinity…and beyond

ad infinitum

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

CaosNothingness, a void

Chaos

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

Hephaestus/Vulcan

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