Rome part 2 - culture

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