Roman villa

of the day in Rome was citizenship for the Italian allies. While the Romans had previously been fairly liberal in granting different allies full citizenship, lately they had been satisfied to grant only second class, or Latin, citizenship. Unfortunately, the Italian allies were not nearly as satisfied with this and were agitating for full rights. We have already seen how this issue cost Gaius Gracchus his life. When another Roman, Marcus Livius Drusus, proposed full citizenship and was…

written records that remain today are mainly funerary inscriptions. It is the purpose of this paper then, to examine a fundamental piece of funerary art to expand upon the history and culture of a people that inevitably incorporated itself into the Roman Empire. Known as Tyrrhenians to the Greeks, the Etruscans lived in Etruria between the Arno and Tiber rivers of Italy in what is now known as Tuscany (Who Were the Etruscans?). The economy was based on agriculture, trade with Carthage and the…

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.…

like peasant during the Roman Empire era. He was poor, had no distinction of royalty and lived in less desirable conditions. For historians there was nothing historically remarkable about his status. Therefore, his daily life was not written down. We only knew so little about him due to the fact that it was the stories the early Christians told about Jesus and what they have thought of him. II. Its so important that Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived and died in the Roman Empire because…

According to Kamm (2009b), the purpose of sculpture was two-fold. The first purpose was "the worship and reverence of images", not just of the religious deities, but also of deceased family members. In the beginning, this was usually a mask or bust that was placed in the atrium of the home. Eventually, they became must larger in size and began to depict, not just the gods or family, but heroes and emperors (Cartwright, 2013). These sculptures were true-to-life, showing emotion, wrinkles, marks,…

Rome’s first king, Romulus was believed to have been carried away into the sky, where he became a god. Romans were proud of their city that they were sure that the gods must have had a hand in its birth. (Chrisp, 2007 pg. 10) The Romans were proud of the works they had done especially their architecture. The Romans built some incredible buildings. According to the Encyclopedia, The origins of Roman architecture can be traced to the Etruscans, who migrated from Asia Minor to Italy in the 12th…

Greeks occupied southern Italy but slowly creeped north 5. THey cultivated olives and grapes, passed on their alphabet and gave Rome artistic and cultural models 6. The Etruscans (North of Rome) influenced the Romans by turning it into a city and gave the Romans the toga II. The Roman Republic A. War and Conquest 1. Republic-…

mane of hair. It was said that Jupiter himself had cast a lightning bolt on one of his long forgotten ancestors, forever cursing the Malafides family with shockingly pale blonde hair. It was one of many things that made him stand out from the typical Roman citizen. “A female both young…

According to author Sharon Kelly Heyob in her book titled, The Cult of Isis Among Women in the Graeco-Roman World, she states that, “ in the ancient world, distinctions among representations of individual divine figures are not usually clear-cut.” In her book, she describes a specific example of the notion of hybridization in art by looking at a specific example of what she refers to as the idea of “blurring of boundaries.” Heyob’s specific examples refer to a small bronze group of statues…

The city had high class architecture with exquisite houses and even paved roads encompassing villas. The city even had an advanced waterway system that brought running water to its citizens. The city also had an amphitheatre where gladiator combats were held, and is a good insight of the gladiatorial culture in Rome at the time. Sadly, these beautiful pieces of architecture, and daily Roman life were only possible because of slave labor. Remains of a body believe to be a slave was found with…