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Ancient World History Lecture #11

Ancient World History Lecture #11. Classical Rome. Themes. The Romans brought political as well as economic and cultural integration to the Mediterranean. The Pax Romana brought more cross-cultural exchange. Christianity developed and spread in the Mediterranean during the Roman empire.

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Ancient World History Lecture #11

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  1. Ancient World HistoryLecture #11 Classical Rome

  2. Themes • The Romans brought political as well as economic and cultural integration to the Mediterranean. • The Pax Romana brought more cross-cultural exchange. • Christianity developed and spread in the Mediterranean during the Roman empire.

  3. Roman senators were extremely proud of their ancestors, who provided models of how good Romans should behave. In this statue of the first century C.E., a senator carries busts of his ancestors that would have been displayed in the foyer of his house and paraded during funerals of family members.

  4. Julius Ceasar

  5. Augustus

  6. Boudica • When did the Britons rebel? Where did Tacitus get his information on this rebellion? • Why did the Britons rebel? • How did Tacitus describe or depict the Britons and their rebellion? How did he depict Roman officials, soldiers, and veterans living in Britain? • Why did the Romans ultimately succeed in suppressing the rebellion?

  7. The head of Constantine is part of an enormous sculpture of him seated that was once originally placed in his basilica. The entire statue was over 30 feet high; the head alone weighs over 8 tons. Head, arms, hands, legs and feet were of marble. The drapery was probably of bronze plates over a masonry frame. The colossal head and neck are superbly modeled, but the eyes, which seem to be fixed on some spot above our heads, seem overly large. Such a feature is common in the early Christian period.

  8. The emperor Diocletian's attempt to reform the Roman Empire by dividing rule among four men is represented in this piece of sculpture, which in many features illustrates the transition from ancient to medieval art. Here the four tetrarchs demonstrate their solidarity by clasping one another on the shoulder. Nonetheless each man has his other hand on his sword--a gesture that proved prophetic when Diocletian's reign ended and another struggle for power began.

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