In a jam for a halloween costume? These are relatively easy and will be a big hit! (Besides, homemade costumes are the best!)

See more from buzzfeed.com *Thanks Wesley!

Hope your studying is going well! 

Here are some fun facts about the ancient Romans from www.afaweb.org

• Women in ancient Rome dyed their hair with goat fat and beech wood ashes. Red and blond were the most popular colors.

• Trajan’s Column is 128 feet high, which is the same height as a nine-story building. The sculptural frieze that wraps around the column is approx- imately 655 feet in length—the length of about two football fields—and depicts more than 2,500 men.

• The Circus Maximus, a theater in Rome, could hold as many as 250,000 spectators. New York’s Yankee Stadium holds approximately 60,000 people.
• Instead of soap, Romans used oil, which they rubbed into their skin and then scraped off with a metal tool called a strigil.
• When the Roman Empire reached its territorial peak in 116 A.D., it spanned 2.5 million square miles.
• Lead was used as both a preservative and a sweetening agent. The toga, the official costume of the Roman citizen, was created using a semi-circular piece of white wool cloth that was about 18H feet in diameter.
• Many gladiators, like athletes today, chose colorful surnames to enhance their public identity. One gladiator, whose name is preserved on a funerary monu- ment, was known as Antaios, the name of a giant from Greek mythology.
• The trepan, or drill, that ancient sculptors used to create their art was also used as a surgical instrument to bore holes into the skull. This procedure (called trepanning) was thought to cure headaches, treat brain disorders, let out evil spirits, and treat insanity.
• Roman charioteers belonged to racing clubs or teams. The most well known were the Whites, Blues, Greens, and Reds.
• Roman bath houses used an advanced heating system called hypocaust to heat the caldarium (hot bath) and tepidarium (lukewarm bath), as well as the floors and walls of the complex.
• Romans played board games such as chess, checkers, and tic-tac-toe.
• Many ancient Roman houses had flushing toilets and indoor plumbing.
• Associated with Mercury, the messenger god, a caduceus (a winged stick encircled by two snakes) came to be linked with postal workers and journalists. The caduceus of Mercury is often confused with the rod of Asclepius—a staff with a single serpent—which is a symbol of medicine

If you haven't discovered the companion site for our textbook, Gardner's Art Through the Ages then you're definitely missing out on important study resource. 

• Artist Pronunciation
• Sample essay questions
• Glossary
• Overviews
• Maps
• Study Guides
• Quizzes

*There will be a pop quiz on Wednesday: At the bottom of the quiz, write down the secret word - pseudoperipteral - and earn a secret extra point :) Happy Reviewing!

If you couldn't tell by now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is probably my most favorite museum that I've visited. It is massive, covers virtually every part of the world's finest art, AND they have the Heilbrunn Timeline.
Super helpful to put dates in order, have reference pictures, essays on a wide variety of topics, key events, and specifics on artworks that we cover in class. You have to be willing to explore outside of our text. There is so much wonderful information out there! 

Good luck studying for your Greek Quiz on Tuesday and enjoy your Monday off :)_