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48 Cards in this Set
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Name: Forum of Augustus |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Mausoleum of Augustus |
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Name: Mausoleum of Augustus
Date: 28 – 23 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • May have been based on tomb of Alexander the Great • Location of the original Res Gestae, a 1st- person documentation of Augustus’ life |
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Name: The Boscoreale Treasure |
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Name: Reliefs from the lararium of the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Alba Fucens |
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Name: Aosta
Date: 24 BC Place: Aosta Significance: • Last military colony established in Italy • Example of a fully developed castrum-style plan |
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Name: Aosta |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Amphitheater |
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Name: Atrium in the House of Sallust
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • 1st style, because it shows replicated expensive stones and emphasis on flatness; demonstrated wealth • Believed to be a replica of types of wall painting that was going on in the Greek world |
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Name: Cubiculum M
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: villa at Boscoreale Significance: • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: Cubiculum M
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: villa at Boscoreale Significance: • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Surgeon
Date: 3rd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Surgical tools found inside, shows what kind of medical technology was available at the time • Things are named after what is found inside • Shows that there was a lack of privacy in Roman society |
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Name: House of the Surgeon |
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Name: Ixion Room
Date: 62 – 79 AD Place: House of the Vettii, Pompeii Significance: • 4th style, so combination of 2nd and 3rd style; illusionism, but tiny intricate details as well |
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Name: megalographic painting, Oecus H |
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Name: Oecus (room 15) |
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Name: megalographic painting, Oecus H |
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Name: megalographic painting, Oecus H
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: Boscoreale Significance: • One interpretation of the painting is that they’re showing famous depictions of Macedonian royal family • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: Room of the Landscapes |
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Names: Stabian Baths |
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Names: Stabian Baths |
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Names: Stabian Baths
Date: 80 BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Colonists changed the circuit of rooms; added things that were Roman styles instead of Greek or Italic style • Showed that baths, in Roman times, was a place for other activities like working out |
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Name: Black Room |
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Name: Black Room |
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Name: Black Room |
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Name: Red Room |
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Name: Triclinium (room 14) |
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Name: Triclinium (room 14) |
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Name: Villa at Oplontis |
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Name: Villa at Oplontis
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Oplontis Significance: • Location of many 2nd Style frescoes |
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Name: Villa at Oplontis |
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Name: Villa of P. Fannius Synistor
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Boscoreale Significance: |
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House of Neptune and Amphitrite (V, 6-7), Herculaneum, 1st c. BC |
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Primaporta Augustus, 20 BC, Rome |
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Primaporta Augustus, 20 BC, Rome |