Ancient Rome

The Ancient Roman Poet, Virgil, once wrote, “They can conquer who believe they can.” King Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire and Emperor Caesar Augustus of the Roman Empire are leaders whose conviction in their rights to power establish unwavering support from the people they lead. King Cyrus holds the throne of an expansive Persian Empire. In 539, claiming to be under the divine right the Babylonian God Marduk, he peacefully conquers Babylon and drives out Nabonidus, the last neo-Babylonian…

famous allusions to Roman mythology can be found when Cassius compares himself to Aeneas, a hero of ancient Rome who was present at the fall of Troy. After the victory of the Greeks, Aeneas escaped the razed city with his father Anchises on his back. Many Romans believed that the emperor and nobles of Troy were descended from Aeneas, as the half-human son of Aphrodite was said to be the founder of Rome. While Cassius is trying to convince Brutus of Julius Caesar’s cowardice and incompetence,…

The artistic traditions of Italy have their origins in the ancient Roman Empire, which was centered in Rome and the Italian peninsula. The classical tradition of ancient Greece and Rome has been an ever-present element in Italian art throughout its history. Its two greatest and most influential periods—Renaissance and Baroque—relied heavily on the style and ideals of classical art. For centuries, artists have traveled to Italy to study both monuments from Roman times and the work of the great…

came back in triumph to be a king of top notch intellect and stern objectives. He is seen as a savior by his supporters and treated in awe as a second Hannibal by his foes (Mayor, Mithradates p. 34). He foresaw a great Eastern empire to compete with Rome. He massacred eighty thousand Romans in 88 BC and after that captured Greece and the current Turkey. He fought some of…

This means that the decree was made on the 7th of October in the year that Quintus Marcius and Spurius Postumius were consuls. "Should there be some who say they must needs maintain a place of Bacchic worship, they must come to the urban praetor at Rome." (line 10-11) The urban praetor oversaw…

To say that the ancient Romans thought a lot about funerary ritual and post-mortem commemoration is an understatement. Abundant textual evidence records complex, performative rituals surrounding death and burial in ancient Rome while significant expenditures on elaborate tombs and funerary portraits. The roman funeral was seen as a type of passage that signified the transition between the death and the life of the person. It was extremely important for them to have proper ceremonies and a burial…

Islamic Empires, and the age of European exploration is. The first thing that i have learned about in the Medieval European (300-352) is Rome is was ransacked by mercenaries that have not gotten their pay from the person that wanted rome down in the first place, Charles the Hammer was the main person in this part of history that involved rome. We also discussed the kings and popes of europe, such as Constantine, and Otto. The way these two things placed a role in today's society is…

Women were accorded an important place in ancient Roman society. “Women from higher class of society were invariably educated to a high degree.”(History for Kids: Roman Women) Clearly women were treated fairly because the higher class of society women were educated to a high degree. “Roman women were considered equal to their male siblings by their parents.”(History for Kids: Roman Women) They were considered equal by their own parents. Which showed that their parents thought equal of men and…

Julius Caesar The drama Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a tragedy. A tragedy is a drama that ends in the downfall of the main character. In Julius Caesar, Brutus, who is an honorable figure in ancient Rome, the setting of the play, betrays and kills his friend Caesar for the good of Rome. This event leads people to seek revenge and eventually ends with brutus’s death. I believe that Brutus is the tragic hero in Julius Caesar because his character follows the following attributes of a…

HOW THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN DISCOVERIES IMPACT LIFE TODAY The ancient Greco-Romans invented, or had a part in inventing, many things that impact our lives every single day. We don’t even think about how these creations affect our lives much less the difficulties that the inventors had to overcome to create them. Throughout our daily lives we use and see so many great discoveries and creations yet we don’t even know who to thank. But those who do know thank the ancient Greco-Romans for…