Do you want the answers now, mcem ? Disclaimer - I may get them wrong!
Orphaned twins Romulus and Remus were fed and raised by a she-wolf.
Octavian became emperor Augustus.
Voting - "^ . . . “no one was deprived of the suffrage” – no one, that is, except women, foreigners, and slaves. . . . no adult male citizen was deprived of his right to vote – this would have been tyrannical.^"
Tribunes - The answer to this is far more complicated than I thought it was (I have Googled it) so I shall not attempt to put an answer here.
Would a victorious Roman general expect to march his troops through the city in triumph? Only after he had sent his report to the Senate with a traditional laurel wreath. Mranwhile the army stayed camped outside the city. He then petitioned for to be granted a triumph, and if it was granted he got permission for a ceremonial march through Rome. This was to stop an ambitious commander continuing his campaign by attacking the city itself and installing himself in charge.
"Veni, vidi, vici" That was Julius Caesar about his defeat of Britain, of course.
Underage Roman boys wore a toga with a purple stripe round the edge, to mark them as juveniles.
Athena (Greek equivalent of Minerva, goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill - quite a girl!) was patroness of Athens?
Battle of Marathon - Persian forces landed near Marathon, Athenian forces managed to block two passes which would have let them through and defeat them, with no help from the Spartans who wouldn't leave their religious festival. According to the myth Pheidippides ran back to Athens (25 miles) with the good news, said "We won" and died. The modern Marathon race is based on this legend. Truth is probably a confusion between a messenger hurrying 40 miles to sparta to get their assistance and the victorious army marching back the 25 miles at a high pace (laden with armour, weapons etc) to head off a Persian force sailing round.
Socrates died of hemlock poisoning, administered as a death sentence when he was convicted of "corrupting the youth of the city-state and impiety against the gods of Athens". He taught his students to question everything and think things out for themselves.
Archimedes was said to have died during the seige of Syracuse. A Roman soldier was sent to fetch him to meet the victorius general Marcellus, who had given orders that he was not to be harned. Archimedes was in the middle of a mathematical problem and refused to come until he had finished. The soldier was enraged and killed him with his sword.
The beautiful Helen was the very young Queen of the mature Menelaus of Sparta, but eloped with or was abducted by Paris, who had been sent on a diplomatic mission by his father Priam, King of Troy.
