History of Rome

The Roman Pantheon was built in the city of Rome. It was completed in the year 125 AD; almost 150 years after it was originally commissioned. The purpose of this structure is under high levels of scrutiny by archaeologists. It is commonly thought, correctly or otherwise, that it was a temple to all of the Gods due to it’s name. However, evidence contradicts this in a literary and religious manor. First of all, in literature there is a special way of referring to temples. In writings concerning…

Rome was a influential civilization that encompassed the center of the Italian Peninsula.In 509 BCE, after overthrowing their Etruscan conquerors, the civilization established itself as a republic. This was a form of government that was designed to allow citizens to directly partake in the government. While this system gave many citizens representation in government, it strictly excluded females.Since Ancient Roman women were deemed too weak to vote, Ancient Roman men had demeaning expectations…

Quite a bit of our insight about state strategy under the Mauryas originates from the Arthashastra composed by Kautilya (all the more famously known as Chanakya), who was a Brahmin pastor under Chandragupta Maurya. In spite of the fact that it was composed toward the end of the fourth century BC, it seems to have been rediscovered just in 1905, following quite a while of insensibility. The treatise in its present structure is in all probability not the content composed by Kautilya, however it is…

Dodd ARC 231 24 March 2015 History Although the Pantheon was not just built once, it was destroyed and rebuilt twice. It was first built under the rule of Marcus Agrippa. It was just a rectangular building with a typical Greek styled temple. It burned down and all that remained was the front entrance. Domitian then rebuilt the Pantheon but was also burned down by a strike of lightning. Hadrian was the emperor that completely restored and rebuilt the Pantheon in Rome. The Pantheon is a…

(someone who negotiated between the Plebeians and Patricians) but the Tribune was made sacrosanct so they would be untouchable if you didn’t like what they said. The tribunes got the laws and customs of Rome and codified them in 450 BCE. These tables/constitution was placed in the center of Rome so all Romans would know the laws. (The Roman Republic Online…

pieces and was accumulated in the late eighteenth century. The two freestanding Greco-Roman sculptures I chose to compare and contrast from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are the Bateman Mercury from 4th century BCE Rome and the Lansdowne Artemis from 1st Century BCE Rome. As soon as I walked into the exhibition hall, these two artworks stood out to me out of the four selections because of the proportion, anatomy, pose, drapery, and texture of the material they are made from. These two…

learning about the past. The history classes that I’ve taken are the classes required to pass high school, which were world history, U.S. government, and U.S. history. Most of the history I know is from watching documentaries or movies. I have never had a bad experience when learning about history it always is of interest to me. My experiences have always been good because my instructors made it interesting and learning about the past is usually pretty fun for me. One of my history instructors…

Tiger Gao Art History ASP w/ Mr. Callahan 10/10/2015 Why can the Pantheon in Rome be seen as the pinnacle of Roman architecture? The Pantheon was built by Emperor Hadrian between 118 and 125 C.E. and is regarded as one of the most iconic pieces of Roman architecture. Built without any steel rods, Pantheon withstood external influences in the past centuries and still stands as one of the best-preserved temples in Rome today, representing the pinnacle of Roman architecture. While the Pantheon’s…

contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire even before it split into eastern and western Rome and became known as Rome and the Byzantium Empire. During the height of Rome’s power it had control of most of modern day Europe and some of north Africa. With its size cam problems one of which were nearly constant war with barbarian tribes. Sadly “In 410 C.E., the Visigoths, led by Alaric, breached the walls of Rome and sacked the capital of the Roman Empire.” This was the first time that the capital…

Washington, DC VS. Rome Have you ever visited the cities of Rome or Washington, DC? Even though Washington, DC, and Rome are major capital cities of their countries in the world, they have many differences along with their similarities. They have vastly different histories, cultural aspects, and racial demographics, but they remain similar in their cost of living and socioeconomic disparity. First, Washington, Dc and Rome are rich in world and national history. The history in the two cities…