Question

According to Herodian, Elagabalus was murdered at an entrance to this system, where Nero allegedly dumped the bodies of street hermits that he drunkenly killed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this system commissioned by Tarquinius Priscus and built by reclaiming the swamps around the Roman Forum. Marcus Agrippa renovated this system and allegedly rode through it as a demonstration.
ANSWER: Roman sewer system [or sewage system; accept drainage system; or sanitation system; or plumbing system; accept Cloaca Maxima; prompt on waste management or water management or wastewater management; prompt on Cloaca]
[10h] Rome’s sewer system was protected by this deity, whose identity became fused with the Etruscan water goddess Cloacina (“clo-uh-CHEE-nuh”). The city’s largest temple was one dedicated to Roma and this other deity on the Velian Hill.
ANSWER: Venus [accept Venus Cloacina or Venus the Purifier; accept Venus Felix or Lucky Venus; reject “Aphrodite”]
[10e] The Cloaca Maxima began at the Forum named for this first Roman Emperor. His son-in-law Marcus Agrippa defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
ANSWER: Augustus Caesar [or Octavian; or Gaius Octavius; or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus; prompt on Caesar; reject other partial answers]
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Columbia AColumbia B1001020
Cornell CNYU A1001020
VassarNYU B1001020
Penn ARowan A0000
HaverfordPrinceton A001010
Princeton BBard A1001020
Rutgers BYale C001010
Rutgers AYale A1001020
Penn BYale B001010