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Additional hints can be found in the Global Glossary and on the following My Word! pages: Priests and Priestesses, Cults and Festivals, Temples in Rome, and Roman Temple Terms.

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October crossword puzzle

Across

1 Household gods, similar to "penates".
7 Room that could hold cult statues.
13 Triangular piece over a doorway that could have decoration.
14 Temple in the forum to honor twin brothers.
16 Piety, the correct reverence for gods, family and government.
17 Art or skill.
18 The Roman god of war.

19 Vergilian hero who was famous for his piety.
20 a god.
21 Goddess.

22 "The dancers," a group of priests honoring Mars.
24 A long round shaft that supported a building.
25 Priests who read auspices to determine w
hether the gods favor a future deed
28 Annual festival to honor Faunus
29 The Roman goddess of wisdom
30 A likeness or statue
31 A beam that goes over an opening

Down

2 Priests who worshipped Augustus and his family
3 temple possibly built by Agrippa that was rebuilt during Hadrian's emperorship
4 The worship of an emperor as a god
5 Part of the temple that would be raised so that it had to be entered by steps
6 A religious building in the Roman Forum to honor Saturn
8 Sacred building in the Forum that kept the sacred fire of Rome
9 Patron gods of a familiy
10 Priestesses who maintain the sacred fire of Vesta in her temple
11 Temple that housed sacred geese and eventually housed a mint
12 Three-day festival to honor Bacchus
15 Members of the Collegium Pontificum, the most important college of priests
23 The most powerful Roman god, the Roman name for Zeus
26 The Roman goddess of love, mother of Aeneas
27 Roman priests under the pontifex maximus

 

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