Italian Social Republic

Social concerns of humanity in Bicycle Thief The most significant events in cinema and art in the early 1940s were the emergence and rapid development of the Italian neorealism. Moreover, it was one of the most striking and perhaps the first major artistic phenomenon of the post-war years, not only in Italy but also all over the world. Neorealism as a movement, which arose in post-war time, offered a close look into the everyday life of ordinary people. Originating in the wake of the resistance…

From the Early Republic to the Late Republic. The conflicts of Roman history are not all with other civilizations; but, also within the Roman society. The early republic had social conflicts within; which, ultimately determined the shape of early politics. A slave revolt, The Servile Wars, took place during two eras of Roman history; the Republican Empire and the Late Republic. The Punic Wars and the war with Parthia, both shaped the Roman culture. The early republic developed a social…

expansion, and conflict between the different forms of state across time. Focusing on one of the dominant powers of the classical period, the Romans, one can see a change in political structure as the Roman Republic turned into the Roman Empire (Wiseman). Before Rome became an empire, Rome was a republic from 507 to 31 BCE. Power resided in the Assembly and the Senate. The Assembly, comprised of male citizens, weighted the votes of the wealthy as more than those of the poor. With elections…

In the 3rd century B.C.E. Rome, a republic and the dominant state on the Italian peninsula, emerged as a new Mediterranean power. When Rome became a city-state, the people were mostly farmers. The early Romans spoke Latin. They borrowed elements of culture from Sicily and the Italian coast. The ideas contributed included planning, gold and bronze, gods and goddesses, and arch building technology. They also set up a Greek style government. Rome became a major center of the Hellenistic culture…

lenient to its population 45,000,000 people. The Roman government had a system set up for those who were foreigners and wanted to become citizens. The Romans may have been lenient, but they had limits for citizens too. Along with their limits they had a social structure within the government to keep everything running smoothly. Athenian citizenship was hard to come by they gave it away to very few types of people. The Athenian government worked hard to get its citizens out of its population of…

the intricate matrix of events precipitating the fall of the Republic; and one indeed that strongly expressed the plight of landless and dislocated farmers, insecure rural laborers, unsuccessful Sullan colonists, the fragility of the financial ecosystem, the oppressive pervasiveness of debt and the discontent of the urban mob; arguably the episode – rather than events surrounding it - may be treated as a reflection of the contemporary social and economic situation in Rome and Italy. Insofar as…

Roman Republic is traditionally dated from 509 BC to 27 BC, becoming established with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom and was destroyed with the development of the Roman Empire. When considering the fall of the Roman Republic, it is clear that the reorganisation of the army, particularly through the actions of Marius, Sulla and Caesar, contributed greatly to the disempowerment of the Senate and therefore the Republic. Through the undoubtedly instrumental Marian reforms, the Roman social and…

Rome is the capital of Italy, which is a peninsula. The Latins were the first people to reside in Rome during 1000 BC. Then in 616 BC, the Etruscans took over and helped started Roman culture. Rome started off as a Republic, but slowly transitioned into an empire. Among the emperors of Rome, Octavian Caesar was the greatest emperor Rome ever had. Rome created mankind’s first republican government that was ran by elected officials. It all started with the overthrowing of a monarch king, Lucius…

play also coincides with the beginning, or early middle, of the Italian renaissance. At this time, Italy was divided into independent city states ruled by kings and princes, and strongly influenced by “merchant princes” such as the Medici. The merchant class, as shown by the reach of the…

How Ancient Roman Civilization was influenced by the Greeks Before the Roman Empire While the Roman Empire (although not an empire yet) was developing, Hellenistic Greece had strongly influenced the whole Ancient World thanks to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Strangely enough though, although respectful of such a great civilization, many Roman people during the eighth century BC bore hostility towards the rising Greek civilization, probably because of their extreme differences in way of…