rome part 2 - culture
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Images of RomeLiterature, Architecture,
Technology
Golden Age of Augustus
Greco-Roman Tradition• Lasted over 200 years.• Ovid’s Metamorphosis • Virgil’s Aeneid – Early pastoral lyrics celebrated
artistry & rural life, modeled after Hellenistic poetry
• Rhetorical Analysis on Greek Poetry, Drama, Literature
Popularization!
• Ovid – “Poet of Stolen Kisses”– Affairs with married women
• Juvenal – Satire about society• Petronius – Satiricon– Social Hierarchy broken
• Horace – Carpe Diem
Greco- Roman ART
Mosaics
Roman Friezes
Frescoes
Personal and political comments & cartoons
Street Graffiti
Imperial Building Projects
• Architecture:–Pantheon–Coliseum– Forum
• Engineering: –Roads–Aqueducts
The Forum… then.
Roman Forum - the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the city of Rome during the Republic and later Empire.
Urban LivingThe Forum now… including part ofThe Roman Road.
Coliseum
The Roman version of a Greek Hippodrome:
Bread and
Circuses
• Romans were promised “a good time” in exchange for cooperation of the masses.
All Roads Lead to Rome
AQUADUCT
For the Romans, cleanliness was next to… well, it was CIVILIZED ROMAN BEHAVIOR!
The public bath was a social place to meet and greet, and spend the Whole afternoon. The BATH and the TOGA were Roman institutions!
Thermium = hot bathTepidarium = tepid Frigidarium = cold
Urban Life: in the Insulae
Insulae
Pompeiian Insulae
Pompeii
Pompeii may once have looked like this.
Domus
Peristyle – Columned porch, often with a gardenTablinum – Frescoed room where the Roman man had his office & accepted guests, clientsExedre – rounded nave opening onto an atrium, usually
Peristyle
Atrium
Pompeii
Domus in Pompeii
Pompeiian FrescoesTell us about life before Mount Vesuvius erupted…
Roman FeastTriculinium seating!
Revolt Against Rome?
• Spartacus…• Boudicca…• Jews…• Christians….
Created Roman Siege Mentality
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