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Big Idea Rome 1
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SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus
The senate and the people of Rome The people and the senate make rome: Democracy |
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Etruscans
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Forms in the north of what we know of as rome
Some evidence of culture. Strange Language Advanced in metal making Coexists with greek civilization |
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Civita Bagnoregio
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Always up on a hill so they could be protected in this time of war.
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Necropolis of the Banditaccia
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Tomb builders
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Etruscan arch Perugia
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Invented the arch
Elemental architectural shift. How do you structure an opening? Masonry-made up of small pieces. Trabeated vs Arch (flat vs curved) |
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Augury
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Etruscan religious beliefs fused with others--Greeks, etc--and also included chthonic elements. This helped the romans assimilate Greek culture.
The Etruscans had a complex system of augury based on the entrails of certain sacrificial animals, especially the liver. Cardo-N/S axis Decumanus-E/W axis The augury was read at the intersection Developed a system of orientation that is based on a sacrificial animals liver. along with flying birds and winds which determined whether or not the land was good for building a city upon. read by haruspex. Reading of the liver was made in The Temple. |
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Etruscan Temples
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they were mostly made of wood thats why there are none left
It was a synchronizing of the gods. The greek gods remain but the romans named them differently. |
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Rome-Romulus-Remus 8th c. BCE
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Romulus and remus were abandoned by their mother and they were taken in by a she wolf.
The seven hills For the original parts of the city city is born on the palatine hill City was about the people, the senate it is essentially the army culture If you go and take things over then you come back with power The senate really didn't have power but they had the good will of the people. Governing body is represented by the senate. |
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Forum Romanum
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The physical center of rome
Center of public life People trade here, talk, share ideas. |
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Commitum
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Where people would get together to talk about the state of rome.
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Rostra
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Actual spot where people would stand and talk at the commitum
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Julius Ceasar
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Ceasar kills off his only real enemy Pompey
Returns to rome and names himself the leader Established a new forum just north of the old one. Open space surrounded by columns. Introduced a new type of building Curia-a building built for the senate. Added a temple of Venus Genetrix-the temple is all about him. unlike Greek temples this is not a temple FOR a god. It is a temple for himself. |
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Theater of Marcellus
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Urban Theater
Freestanding, often covered, more steep, constructed stage. Duel system on the facade. Post and beam integrated with arch syncretic |
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Circus Maximus
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Massive circle for chariot races.
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Augustus
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Becomes the first emperor of rome
Creates his own forum. Forum of Augustus Puts in a temple Mars Ultor Had to create a large wall because there was a poor neighborhood right behind the temple Basilica Julia Is not a church it is a meeting place. renamed the center of the world Created his own Mausoleum Enlarged the cloaca maximus-plumming |
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Vitruvius 70-25 BCE
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Wrote an architecture book
Establishes the criteria for architecture Establishes a triad---Venustas, utiltas, firmitas. Corinthian Capital: Callimachus |
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Aqueducts
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Water was brought into the city at an amazing rate
11 aqueducts were built massive campaign to bring water into the city |
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Cloudius
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May have ascended accidentally after the assassination of Gaius
Developed the costal town-Ostia Insulae and Domus-Housing for the common folk Insulae later made into Domus. |
