• Cinema Italian Style: • Seattle Art Museum (Plestcheeff Auditorium) • Films start at 7:30 PM ($8 at the door) • Films in this series include: January 15: Il Sorpasso/The Easy Life January 22: The Leopard February 5: Fellini Satyricon February 19: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion February 26: The Decameron March 5: Death in Venice March 12: Ginger and Fred March 19: La Grande Bellezza/The Great Beauty • Films in Italian with English subtitles, all 35 mm.
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• Cinema Italian Style:
• Seattle Art Museum (Plestcheeff Auditorium)
• Films start at 7:30 PM ($8 at the door)
• Films in this series include: January 15: Il Sorpasso/The Easy Life
January 22: The Leopard
February 5: Fellini Satyricon
February 19: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
February 26: The Decameron
March 5: Death in Venice
March 12: Ginger and Fred
March 19: La Grande Bellezza/The Great Beauty
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Films in Italian with English subtitles, all 35 mm.
• 142 books from beginnings of city from 753 BCE to 9 CE
• Padua; not a politician; writes during reign of Augustus (31 BCE to
14 CE)
• Book One:
• Founding legends: Aeneas, Romulus and Remus
• Regal period (753-509 BCE) 7 kings
• Overthrow of kings and foundation of Republic
• Book Two:
• Brutus defends Republic through sacrifice of his own sons
The Last Three ‘Etruscan’ Kings of Rome
• Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (Lucumo)
--Etruscan/Greek origins [from Tarquinii];
--characterized by ambitio and wealth;
--married to Tanaquil [woman who understands augury]
--Expands Senate with lesser families (demagogue)
--Murdered by sons of former king Ancus Marcius
• Servius Tullius (possible slave origins)
Census and organization of military on the basis of property
Marries his daughters to the king’s sons
Killed by his son-in-law Tarquin and daughter Tullia,
parricide (murder of the father), impiety
. Quote from Livy: “To Tullia the thought of Tanaquil’s success was torture… it was intolerable to feel that she herself should count for nothing in the making, or unmaking of kings.”
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud)
• Rules by fear, does not consult the Senate
Building projects bring hardship on populace
• Rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius and her suicide:
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– Lucretia as example of female private/domestic virtue consigned for protection to male public/political virtue
• Lucius Junius Brutus leads rebellion against Tarquins and kingship is overthrown for Republic
Reign of Etruscan kings is a period of intense
Urbanization in Rome
• --Servian wall (earliest wall after Romulus vs. Remus
• --Cloaca Maxima (sewer, draining of Forum)
• --Paving of Forum
• --Circus Maximus
• --Capitoline Temple to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva