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What do some Pompeii doorway mosaics warn visitors about?
Answer: The dog
Why: The House of the Tragic Poet's mosaic shows a chained black dog in a red collar above the words Cave canem, 'Beware of the dog'.
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Which art word comes from the buried rooms of Nero's Golden House?
Answer: Grotesque
Why: Rediscovered in the late 1400s, its buried painted rooms were entered from above like caves, Italian grotte.
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In which century were the twins added to the Capitoline Wolf?
Answer: 15th century AD
Why: Radiocarbon tests even suggest the wolf was cast between 1021 and 1153, though scholars still disagree.
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Which painted fruit fooled birds in Pliny's tale of Zeuxis?
Answer: Grapes
Why: None of Zeuxis' paintings survive, so ancient stories like this one are all we have of his art.
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Which god did the Colossus of Rhodes show?
Answer: Helios
Why: It stood only about 54 years before an earthquake brought it down in 226 BC.
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Which wars spiral up Trajan's Column in Rome?
Answer: Dacian Wars
Why: Trajan himself appears 58 times among the frieze's 2,662 carved figures.
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