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38 Cards in this Set
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Preferred Structure |
Civic Buildings to honor Empire |
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Walls |
Concrete with Ornamental facing |
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Trademark Forms (shape) |
Circle |
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Support System: |
Rounded Arch |
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Column Style |
Corinthian |
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What type of Art style / who did they paint |
Realistic, most often leaders of the empire |
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Evolution of Roman Arch |
Barrel Vault, Groin Vault, Sequence of Groin Vaults, Hemispherical Dome w/ Oculus (Pantheon) |
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Republican patrician portraits |
Mostly men of advanced age (generally these elders held the power in the state) We are able to see this man’s personality: serious, experienced, determined- virtues that were admired during the Republic. |
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Ara Pacis |
was a monument dedicated in 9 BC to commemorate Augustus; return to Rome after establishing Roman rule in Gaul Example of Imperial Procession |
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Imperial Procession |
a relief showing the family members and other who attended the dedication. |
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linear perspective |
It was most successfully employed in the far corners, where a low gate leads to a peristyle framing a tholos temple |
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"tesserae" (TES uh ree) |
were used to give extra detail and color to mosaics. colors n stuff |
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Primary School |
Reading w/ simple letters, phrases from texts & inscriptions Writing w/ erasable wax tablet & stylus (CAPS only) Simple math w/ abacus or pebbles (and Roman numerals) Low fees, open to any student, mixed social classes |
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Secondary School |
Writing w/ parchment & quills for advanced students Latin & Greek for elite students Oratory, beg. rhetoric, poetry, grammar = civic/political training |
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Oratory School/”College” |
More advanced rhetoric, noble students |
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Academic Year |
Began March 24 7 days a week, holidays off started at sunrise |
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Pedagogy |
Looks for the best way to teach; connected to Cicero and Quintilian Oral emphasis (dictation, lecture, disputation) Memorization and recitation, enunciation |
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Paedagogus |
Family slave (often Greek) who accompanied boy to/from school, provided tutoring & safety |
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Schools |
Rarely purpose-built buildingsRough, backless benches |
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Apprenticeships for older students |
Vital for students to network, and to gain experience in diplomacy, military tactics |
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Cicero |
Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, political scientist, & prose stylist Sent his son Marcus to Athens to complete his education, as many wealthy families did |
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Quintilian |
Trained in Rome—lawyer in Spain--assistant to Emperor Galba—opens a school of Rhetoric in Rome. Tutor to Domitian’s grand-nephews |
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Roman Numerals |
They were traditionally used to separate people and ships with the same name
A way for the Romans to represent numbers. There is not a Roman numeral that represents the number zero. |
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Games |
Knucklebones: Four Tali dropped from a moderate height onto a table or the ground. Score came from side facing up Tesserae: = 7 with dice Mancala: Race game, Trying to get the most stones in your big square, oldest board game |
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Campus Martius |
was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about 2 square kilometres (490 acres) in extent. In the Middle Ages, it was the most populous area of Rome. |
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First Style |
beginnings of paint being used on plaster and techniques to make paintings look like architectural features such as marble or masonry Featured myths, gods, warriors |
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Second Style |
Romans began painting life or landscape scenes, as though one were simply looking out a window. More complex |
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3rd Style |
Paintings took on one colored background with architectural features. If paintings did contain a landscape scene, they were very small |
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Fourth Style |
It took artistic elements from the previous two styles and created illusions within the painting to trick the eye. Panoramas and such |
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Baths of Caracalla |
Rome, were the second largest Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome |
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hypocaust |
a system of burning coal and wood underneath the ground to heat water provided by a dedicated aqueduct. |
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OSTIA ANTICA |
he river was used as harbour, but in the Imperial period two harbour basins were added to the north 2600 years ago the marsh at Ostia was affected by a sudden environmental change through the input of sea water, which transformed the basin from lacustrine to brackish environment |
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Stadium of Domitian |
The Stadium was commissioned around 80 AD by the Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus as a gift to the people of Rome, and was used mostly for athletic contests. |
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Pantheon |
an adjective understood as "[temple consecrated] to all gods“, |
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frigidarium |
Cold room in the baths |
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caldarium |
the hot room |
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palestras |
gyms, where wrestling and boxing took place |
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natatio |
swimming pool |
