Across
- 4. A person who stands in for a ruler who is too young or too ill to govern.
- 9. The father and head of the household; “father of the family.”
- 11. Works that poke fun at human weaknesses.
- 12. The study of body structure.
- 13. The emperor of the Byzantine Empire from A.D. 527 to A.D. 565.
- 15. What did the poet Horace write?
- 16. What was the one of Justinian’s greatest architectural achievements?
- 19. An open space that served as a marketplace and a public square.
- 20. How did Roman engineers connect the empire?
- 21. Headed a group of legal scholars that reformed Byzantine laws.
- 23. Roman poet who wrote satire and odes.
Down
- 1. What was the topic of most mosaics?
- 2. Roman writer of epic poetry.
- 3. What made up the Byzantine Empire’s largest ethnic group?
- 5. A disease that spreads widely.
- 6. A gladiator who led a slave revolt in 73 B.C.
- 7. Political changes to make things better.
- 8. A Germanic general who overthrew the last western emperor.
- 10. Christian holy people.
- 14. Important scientist of the Roman Empire.
- 17. A Visigoth leader who invaded the city of Rome in A.D. 410.
- 18. What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
- 22. What did Galen emphasize the importance of?