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Legends of Early Rome escape rooms

5 self-checking escape rooms on Legends of Early Rome, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 5–8, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

No logins and nothing to install. Try the first two locks of any room free. See all the mythology escape rooms.

Room by room

• Aeneas Comes to Italy: The Exiles of Troy. The escape from burning Troy with Anchises, Ascanius and the household gods, the long wandering by way of Dido's Carthage, the landing in Latium, King Latinus and his daughter Lavinia, the war with Turnus and Mezentius, the founding of Lavinium and the new city built by Ascanius.
• Romulus and Remus: The Wolf's Twins. Amulius steals the throne of Alba Longa from his brother Numitor, Rhea Silvia's twin sons are left by the flooded Tiber, the she-wolf and the herdsman Faustulus save them, the grown twins put Numitor back on his throne, and the brothers watch the sky from two hills to decide who will found the new city.
• The Seven Kings: Seven Crowns. Romulus and the Sabines, peaceful Numa and the nymph Egeria, warlike Tullus and the fight of the Horatii and Curiatii, Ancus and his bridge and port, Tarquin the Elder and Tanaquil, Servius Tullius and the census, and Tarquin the Proud, driven out by Brutus.
• Heroes of the Republic: The Bridge Holds. Lars Porsena of Clusium attacks Rome, Horatius holds the Sublician Bridge while it is cut down behind him, Mucius slips into the Etruscan camp and puts his hand into the fire, and the hostage Cloelia leads the girls across the Tiber.
• Cincinnatus and Coriolanus: Plough and Sword. Gnaeus Marcius wins his name at Corioli, quarrels with the people over grain and the tribunes, goes into exile and leads the Volscians against Rome until his mother turns him back; later, with a Roman army trapped by the Aequi, envoys find Cincinnatus at work on his farm and make him dictator.