Ancient History by Letter ‘V’

Tribal confederation, occupied the Adriatic coast of North East Italy throughout the first millenium

Gallic King who led a united Celtic revolt against Roman rule. Defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC

Roman poet who composed the Aeneid - a founding mythology linking Rome to Mycenaean Greece

Priestesses of the Roman Goddess of the hearth, their duties included maintaining the Sacred Flame of the temple

Emperor of Eastern Rome, brother of Valentinian, killed by invading Goths under Fritigern in 378 AD at the battle of Adrianople

Roman general, lost three legions in 9 AD after being ambushed by the Germanic Chieftain Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Statue of Aphrodite made in the 2nd Century BC, rediscovered on the Greek island of Milos in 1820

The highest ranking official / adviser to the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt

Roman fortress located just South of Hadrian’s Wall, now a museum

Iron-Age Kingdom also known as Urartu, centred around a lake of the same name in modern-day Armenia

Volcano, destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD

Germanic tribe, sacked Rome under King Alaric in 410 AD before settling in Southern Gaul and Hispania

Germanic tribe who migrated through Gaul and Hispania before settling in North Africa. Sacked Rome in 455 AD under King Gaiseric

City on the Ganges, one of the oldest in India, an important religious and cultural location

9th Roman Emperor, a successful general who founded the Flavian dynasty

Roman town near modern-day St Albans, sacked and burnt by the Iceni Queen Boudica