Pax Romana

Roman Empire did not fall in a day. It took a great deal of years for this empire to become feeble and fall. During this fall, there grew two distinct worlds, the West and the East. They were very surprising from each other. The attacking armed force came to the edges of Rome, which had been left absolutely undefended. In 410 A.C., the Visigoths, broke the dividers of Rome and breached the walls. As a result they sacked the capital of the Roman Empire. The Visigoths plundered, looted, burned,…

In Why War?—a series of correspondence between him and Albert Einstein—Sigmund Freud argues that war is solution for the societal elite to accomplish their goals without getting directly involved in conflict. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front echoes the sentiments and ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud. Freud states that war is an inevitable process towards the progression of society at the cost of individuality, and his sentiments can be seen through Remarque’s portrayal of…

The morality laws were in response to the alleged sins of current and previous Romans and were thought necessary in order to preserve ‘pax romana’ (roman peace) and peace with the gods. This is best described in a passage from Horace’s Odes: ‘Our age, fertile in its wickedness, has first defiled the marriage bed, our offspring, and homes: disaster’s stream has flowed from this source through…

SUMMARY Adrian Goldsworthy’s book, Augustus First Emperor of Rome is an extensive biography examining the life and political dominance of Rome’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus. Goldsworthy states that he wrote this biography in an attempt to give a more detailed and accurate account of the life of Caesar Augustus. He believed that Caesar Augustus’ life was separated into three distinct time periods based on his given name at the time. “Thus, we have a man with three very distinct names at…

peaceful means. In relation to world peace, the clear suggested type of peace Galtung seeked to achieve is a positive one.. However, how can IS be in a peaceful position. It is important to acknowledge that the term peace is rooted from the Latin word pax meaning to fix. This definition is important because it does not indicate the absence of human conflict in IS. Rather, it suggests that IS can be fixed from a chaotic system to a stable and coherent system where state actors live in relative…

When we think of the ancient classical civilization of the Romans, what comes to mind? Perhaps it’s the amazing architectural feats, or rather the advanced forms of government that we still use to this very day? I submit that neither is as spectacular as the ancient underground catacombs that hold the mass graves of around 2000 skeletons. After watching the NOVA program (titled Roman Catacomb Mystery) on this specific catacomb, I found several interesting aspects of the graves that include, the…