Pax Romana

Justinian the Conqueror (aka The Emperor Triumphant, Barberini Ivory) is thought to have been created in Constantinople (Byzantine) in the early 6th century. The artist is unknown. It is a diptych panel in five parts. The pieces’ dimensions are: 32.4 cm by 26.8 cm by 2.8 cm deep. The second piece, Augustus of Primaporta was discovered in1863 at the villa of Augustus’ wife Livia Drusilla, and close to a late Imperial gate called Prima Porta . The artist is unknown. It is a freestanding marble…

Group Members: Amirali Aghnami Zhobin Sadeghi Kevin Rush Wei Qiu Sarah Smurthwaite Art History 1 Professor Meyer 24 October 2014 Peace and Security Art and architecture throughout history has kept alive and allowed expansion of ideas, reality, and emotion. It not only sustained and expanded cultures, but is allowed people to have the freedom to express and honor heroes, religious figures, and the values that societies embraced which were courage, dignity, peace, and security. In art…

Nations today strive to resemble the Roman Empire. The commonwealth not only completed marvelous engineering feats, but also developed a system of government that allowed for prosperity among its citizens. This was mainly possible because of influential leaders that steered the empire. The first ruler, Augustus, was a merciless rebel early in his career, but soon became an astute general by winning numerous wars and uniting the people in his empire. After more than a century of Augustus’s reign…

Task 2- Multicultural Empires Part A. A1 (Rome). There are many geographical factors that impacted the development of Rome but the one geographical factor that had a significant impact on the development of Rome was the Tiber River. Just like the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, the Roman Republic, and later empire, developed and flourished alongside a river. The Tiber river allowed the people of Rome to grow crops of wheat and barley that they not only used for…

Throughout this essay I will compare the main goals of Aeneas, Enclopius, and Terentia as well as which perspective of Roman Culture these characters missions suggests that they have, and what each of these characters is trying to achieve and how each of these goals shows a different image of Rome. I will also look at how Terentia’s goals and strategies challenged the stable and just view of Rome that Aeneas sets up. Next, I will also examine how Encolpius’ quest in the Satyricon challenges the…

Emperor Nero Around 54 AD, the Roman empire was enjoying the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace, a time when outside enemies were not a threat and the arts flourished. However, this peace did not last long when Emperor Nero came into the picture. Emperor Nero was the most destructive of the ancient Roman emperors of the Julian-Claudian dynasty. The Julian-Claudian dynasty was filled with exceptional and disastrous rulers, but Nero stood out in his lasting negative effects. Julius Caesar was the first…

A leader's style of governing influences the economic prosperity of the empire. The leader is responsible for making important decisions to benefit the prosperity their empire. Different ruling methods often influence the prosperity of empires in different ways. Under the rule of Qin Shi Huang, Wu of Han, and Genghis Khan, the Chinese empire reached great economic heights. Their ruling methods were all diverse however were effective in establishing economic growth. The Roman rulers Trajan,…

Chapter 5 Outline By: Pipa 5-1 The Rise of Rome I. The land Peoples of Italy A. The land and Peoples of Italy 1. Italy had more land for farming, this helped Rome to support a larger population 2. Tiber river gave Rome a route to sea, and protection from pirates 3. Rome was built on 7 hills it was easily defended 4. The Greeks occupied southern Italy but slowly creeped north 5. THey cultivated olives…

velletri, Italy (Roberts 6). After his great uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated Augustus rose to power. Not only did Augustus found the Roman Empire and was its first leader but while over his rule he brought a two centuries of peace known as Pax Romana. Augustus was an outstanding leader, one of the great figures of world history. He brought about needed political change in Rome, effectively ending the obsolete yet still popular republic…

Propaganda is information, usually of a biased or misleading nature, which is used to promote a political cause or point of view. Virgil’s epic poem, the Aeneid, describes the backstory for the foundation of Rome and the majestic future which was soon to come. Aeneid, the protagonist in the poem, is alluded to be Augustus, and by doing this it gave the people of Rome a heroic image that Augustus could be envisioned by, and the people of the future a vision of the ruler that was. I believe…