Pantheon, Rome

There have been many successful civilizations over the years. These classical civilizations have contributed a lot to life now! Some of these civilizations are Rome, India, China, and Maya. These civilizations started by civilizations creating complex governments, religions, education advancements, and expanding land. What makes a civilization "successful" is a great ruler, trade, and inventions. A great ruler makes a civilization successful. According to the Department of Asian Art,…

Madison Alvarez #3 Governors Palace Why should the Governor's Palace get a commemorative coin? The Governors Palace is a big house that was for many important people, it was where Lord Dunmore lived and, also six royal governors and two elected governors. The Governor's Palace deserves a commemorative coin because there is so much to learn about. For…

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…

The Elements Paying Tribute to Friendship is a sculpture created by Louis-Simon Boizot in the year 1783. The sculpture is made out of “marble presenting the depth of carving by producing space and sense of physical presence” (Boizot). There are four figurines that symbolize the “elements of clouds, flames, waves, and earth” (Boizot). The four elements are paying tribute to lady named Friendship who is “standing on a platform with her arm wrapped around an elm tree stump wearing a wreath of…

Both the ancient civilizations of Rome and Egypt have different characteristic that make their countries the most powerful of their time. Egypt although in a desert used the Nile River to grow bigger and Rome used the warm Mediterranean weather and the Italian peninsula to grow bigger too. These characteristics can be in how they lived their life or how they flourished in their different landscape. I learned that both Egypt and Rome worked with each other even after the Romans took control of…

The Pantheon has many distinguishing characteristics that allow it to be named as one of the most remarkable buildings ever constructed. The reason for this is because of the size and all of the time consuming details put into this masterpiece. In its composition, the height of the Pantheon is an astounding 150 feet. The interior of the Pantheon was assembled upon theoretical spherical and cubical geometry, measuring 143 feet in height and width. The reason for the measurements of both the…

The Parthenon and Pantheon are great ancient temples built in different times, they come from different cultures and time yet they share many similar architectural style. The Roman and the Greek culture have influenced the architecture around the world till date. The Parthenon may be one of the greatest architectural achievements by the Athenians in Athens. Athens was one of many Greeks city-state, In the 5th Century Athens was the most powerful city-state. This precinct becomes a sacred one…

5.1. Architecture: It had four bases and stood over 45 m high and measured 189 x 156 m across. The elliptical arena itself measured 87.5 m by 54.8 m.(3) The theatre was stunning even from the outside with huge open arcades on each of the first three floors presenting statue-filled arches. There were no less than 80 entrances, 72 of these were numbered and tickets were sold for each. (3) Two entrances were used for the gladiators. One for the dead bodies and one which victors and those allowed…

The image in the previous slide is a monument meant to pay tribute to the age of exploration. It is important because the monument shows some of the most important explorers of the Portuguese in the age exploration. Every single figure on the monument played a major role in some form or another. As such not only is the monument important because of the historical figures it represents, but also the time period it honors. Portugal had many famous explorers and journeymen in the age of…

The Baths of Caracalla, or Terme Antoninas, were public baths situated in central Rome. They were completed circa 217 AD under the government of Emperor Caracalla. Beneath the Baths of Caracalla runs a maze of passageways and rooms, a network of galleries and streets wide enough to take vehicles transporting supplies for the smooth operation of the baths. A separate sub structure adjacent to these baths was later converted into a Mithraeum. The primary function of a Mithraeum is a gathering…