Life in the Republic
Roman
religion
Try to find out which festivals these
people are celebrating. Click on each
picture to see if you are right.
Then find out about Lars and Penates.
Lupercalia: Celebrated in
February to encourage the
Crops to grow
Saturnalia: In honour of the god
Saturn. It too place in December
Roman and Greek gods
Jupiter. Ruler of the gods
Zeus
Neptune. God of the sea
Poseidon
Venus. Goddess of love
Aphrodite
Mars. God of war
Ares
Vulcan. God of fire
Hephaestus
Pluto. God of the underworld
Hades
Vesta. Goddess of the home
Hestia
The Republic
Find out what these words mean.
Check your answers by clicking
on each of these words
consuls
veto
lictors
quaestor
Young Romans, who wanted to
become
consuls
had
to were
gain
consuls.
Two consuls
An aedile
was a
young
Roman
aedile
experience.
a quaestor
they
elected
each
year.
who was
hoping
to As
become
a consul.
lictors
carried
the
bundles
of
had
to
deal
with
money
and
they
The aedile
wasrods
put tied
in charge
of an
public
wooden
around
axe.
had
to
organise
public
games
buildings
water
supplies
Thisand
was
a symbol
of the
power of
thewas
consuls
to punish
criminals
A praetor
a judge.
The young
man
by
beating
or
executing
them.
veto. If
of the
who wanted
toone
become
a consul
The
object
was
called
a fasces praetor
did not
agree
was inconsuls
in his final
stage
of experience.
withofficer
the other
he
couldmagistrates.
The
whole
process
was
called
cursus
All these
were
called
overrule
or used
blocktoday.
his
honorum
The word
is still
partner’s discision
magistrates
Patricians and plebians
S
The Senate was a group
Clickofon
important
each letter
men
to find
from the leading families.
out what
They gave
they mean…
advice
to the consuls
P
The populi or people of Rome. They were divided into two
groups. The wealthy patricians, from the Latin word father and
the plebians. This meant everyone else except the slave
Q
Que on the end of the Latin word populi (people) gave the word
populique. This means: and the people
R
The plebians go on strike
When Rome went
to the
warpictures
the plebians
Click
had to fight. in order to find out
While they werewhat
awayhappened.
fighting. The
farmers would not be able to gather their
wheat
2
3
No harvest meant no money. The farmers
had to borrow money from the patricians.
They were made slaves if they could
not pay the money back.
In 494 BC the plebians refused to fight.
A popular patrician came to see them on
a hill (Mons Sacer). He agreed to allow
the plebians to elect a Tribune of the Plebs
to protect them
4
1.
Menenius Agrippa
Roman Education
Click on each number to find
out what is happening in this
picture
Only wealthy
children could
go to school.
They started
before sunrise.
The boys went
home for a
2
siesta.
The teacher would be
Greek. All educated
Romans spoke Greek.
They3were taught to read,
write and count.
A slave would go to
school with a boy
aged 7. The slave
was called a
paedagogus
4
Children wrote on wax tablets
called cerae or tabulae. They
1
used a stilus to write on the wax.
The Latin language
Click these Latin
phrases to find out what
they mean.
lingua franca
The common
language
Seize the day
carpe diem
While I breathe, I hope
dum spiro spero
ad infinitum
etc. (et cetera)
i.e (id est)
Going on and on..
and other things
that is
How do we know?
We know so
much about the
Romans because
of the written
evidence they
left behind.
Find out about
these important
sources
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Polybius