Roman Empire

quickly evolved into a separate religion with a far greater reaching scope than either Athens or Jerusalem. As it continued to spread across the Roman empire, the church fathers debated and investigated the influence of both Athens and Jerusalem in Christianity. Eventually, they adapted the forms of the Roman government for the church. This repurposed Greco-Roman model ultimately…

Pompeii was an ancient Roman city, located in what is know today as southern Italy, that remained lost to the world for over sixteen hundred years after a volcanic eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius left it blanketed in ash. As the city was unearthed a clearer picture of Roman life began to emerge. Though several Roman cities were merely left to disrepair after the empire fell and not impacted by a volcanic eruption, they were affected by the elements that fell upon them in the nearly two…

the Romans. The Virgilian epic poem is a paratactic. Aeneas is from Troy, he is the son of Venus and Anchises, and he is the father of Ascanius. Is to say that Aeneas is an idealized version of Augustus. The Aeneid is used as a tool to promote valuable identity of Roman self during the period of transition during the Augustan Age,…

Caligula During the Roman era it was a time of innovation, brutality and with a great dynasty flourishing the emperor would take credit for their success. However, not all emperors of Rome were the essence of a great leader, like Augustus, but instead ruled with fear, and corruption. Furthermore, Around 30 AD there was an emperor named Tiberius who was putting the stability of Rome in question; for example, his judging was questionable, he raised taxes, pocked the profits, cut back on festivals…

of the mighty Roman Empire as it is today. With easy access of television and twitter, politicians took a more artistic approach to spreading their message. From coins to monuments, Roman rulers saw to it that their images was known. A prime example is Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, who, “ invoked the power of imagery to communicate his ideology” (Fischer). The sculpture modeled after him, Augustus of Primaporta, holds both artistic and political significance in Ancient Roman history.…

Commodus, was the Roman Emperor from 180 AD to 192 AD. He was the first Emperor to succeed his blood father since since Titus succeeded Vespasian in 79, and was also the first Emperor to be born “in the purple”, which means he was born during his father’s reign. Commodus is largely considered one of the worser Emperors to have ruled the Roman Empire. Though he ruled for quite a long period of time, by the end of his rule, his own ego had back quite prevalent throughout the empire. Commodus had…

Bread and Circuses, a very effective form of authority throughout Roman history, were key contributing factors to the end of the Roman republic because they pacified the plebs to a point where they stopped thinking for themselves and allowed the government and politicians to become their lifeline for food, entertainment and the political direction of Rome. The Roman Bread and Circuses, wildly extravagant and free events, gathered masses of people to enjoy the violent and bloody spectacle of men…

The Allemanic tribes lived for a long period of time along the border of the Roman Empire. Ammianus Marcellinus describes them as follows: „[...] the people called Huns, slightly mentioned in the ancient records, [...] At the very moment of their birth the cheeks of their infant children are deeply marked by an iron, [...] they grow up without beards, and consequently without any beauty, [...] they are of great size, and low legged, so that you might fancy them two-legged beasts, [...]they…

DeWitt, Norman W. “The Primitive Roman Household”. The Classical Journal 15.4 (1920): 216–225. JSTOR. Print. 1 May 2016. “The Primitive Roman Household,” an excerpt from volume 15 of The Classical Journal, details the unique structure of a household in the ancient Roman Empire, from the physical architecture of the house to the roles and hierarchies all the inhabitants lived by, the former of which tended to bear hardest upon the women. In the latter half of the piece, DeWitt describes the…

by his uncle King Rua and goes to live with his tribe and his brother Bleda. General Flavius Aetius is freed from prison and sent to the Hun camp to join forces with Roman Empire against the Visigoths. After the battle, Attila returns to Rome with Flavius Aetius and becomes fascinated with all the splendors and riches available in Roman. His visit ends with the news of King Rua’s death in which Bleda poisoned King Rua to gain the throne for himself while Attila was away. Attila returns just…