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| Omphalos (belly button) of the world. Site of Apollo's oracle and Apollo's fight with Python |
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| God of the sun, medicine, poetry, and archery. |
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| Mountain near Delphi where poets go for inspiration |
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| A city on an isthmus in Greece. It is near the gulf of Corinth, which was a major trading area. Corinth was a major naval power in ancient Greece |
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| Apollo's priestess, who was named after Python, the serpent that Apollo fought with. It has been speculated that a possible reason for the unusual way in which the Pythia speaks could be due to gasses that rise up from a crack in the ground. |
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| Litterally: belly button. Delphi was considered the "omphalos" of the world |
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| Naval commander in Athens who interpreted the oracle that said "trust in the wooden walls" to mean trust the ships and the navy |
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| The spring of inspiration for poets near Delphi |
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| The major division of the Roman army, consisteing of about 6,000 soldiers |
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| A division of the Roman army consisting of about 500 men |
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| A division of the Roman army consisting of about 80 soldiers and about 100 total men |
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| The right to command an army |
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| The general's tent in a Roman camp |
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| The tent that holds the money in a Roman camp |
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| The senior centurion of the 1st cohort and therefore the whole legion |
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| The centurion's second-in-command |
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| The mound of dirt resulted from digging the fossa |
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| The crossbow-type weapon that flung boulders |
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| The catapult: it shot darts and arrows |
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| the ballista: its hurled stones and wooden beams |
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| Litterally: tortoise shell. The battle formation used by the Romans in which soldiers formed a rectangle. Soldiers on the outside held shields as they normally would, while all other soldiers held their shields over their heads |
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| The highest award in the Roman army, given for saving the life of a citizen while in battle |
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| The road from the north end of a camp to the south end of a camp |
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| The road from the east end of a camp to the west end of a camp |
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| Caesar's nephew who was involved in his assassination and led the forces in Athens |
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| The "brains" behind the operation of Caesar's assassination |
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| Caesar's right hand man who was expected to be his heir. He allied with Octavian and later Cleopatra |
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| Caesar's great nephew and heir. He later changed his name to Caesar Augustus when he became emperor |
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| Site of the final battle between Rome and Brutus' forces in which Rome won |
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| The idea of freedom upon which Brutus and Cassius' point of view was based |
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| The mountain, or series of buildings on the mountain in Athens |
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| The temple to Athena on the Acropolis |
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| The temple to Erechtheus, the legendary founder of Athens. This is also on the acropolis |
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| The ornamental entryway to the acropolis |
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| Publius Vergilius Maro. The author of the Aeneid |
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| Octavian's sister, at one point Marc Antony's wife |
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| After the war with Brutus and Cassius, Octavian confiscated land from the Roman people to house the returning soldiers |
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