Western Roman Empire

about. I viewed the sculpture of an unknown artist, it was sculpted roughly around the Roman age 1st century A.D. and titled ‘The head of Augustus,’ who was also the founder of the Roman Empire and its first emperor, he ruled from 27 B.C. until his death in A.D. 14. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and very wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. Created in 20 A.D.…

The area around the Hudson Yards used to be out of our sight. We cannot even think about the business and life that might happen on that land before all these changes. It is the land specifically planned for rail tracks, not human. The area starts with the transportation infrastructure. The rails cover the most part of the land. We can see from the history of the area the mega-scale of the building structure, comparing the human scale, is the dominating character of the area. The scale of the…

Reading and Watching: VT 13 & 14 Highlights: During these two units of architecture and Paleolithic Art, I have come across several highlights that will give one an idea of what each unit was about. In the video, “Cathedral of Norte Dame” by Khan Academy, explains how it was the oldest church in its era. It possessed a relic, which is an object that holds special powers, for example in this case, the supposedly Virgin Mary’s tunic. People would travel great distances to see the relic and be…

Sea horses have adapter to a better survivable habitat by camouflage, with armored bodies. From recent knowledge, "camouflage" means the disguising of a enemy personal. To me the seahorses are being able to do that to get away form predators(enemy). In paragraph 1, the author states" They are captains of camouflage with armored bodies and talented tails. I think that the author is trying to state that they are really talented, and are very good at disguising themselves. Also in paragraph 3, it…

Even though both men, played a huge role in ancient discovery, I believe Sir Arthur Evans discoveries were the most beneficial and helped us learn the most about the Aegean civilization. Through his findings, historians have been able to uncover more about these ancient civilizations. I choose Sir Arthur Evans for a couple of reasons. First, he discovered the the ancient capital of Knossos by digging up a palace. This finding allowed him to name the civilization Minoan. This was the…

For this upcoming History Museum Project, My partner Sunday and I decided to do the Greek Amphitheater with the statue of the goddess Athena. The project took about three weeks to do. We chose to make this because we wanted to learn more about Greek culture and we both really admire the Greek Architecture, so we decided to make one of the most known ancient Greek Architecture, The Amphitheatre. The Amphitheatre was a theater, which provided many forms of entertainment such as politics, religion…

Over the last few years, there has been an obvious shift of the electorate across Southern Europe, in Spain, Greece and Italy. This shift has come in the form of the rise of anti-establishment and anti-systemic political parties, and the gradual move away from established, ‘old’ parties. Some of the factors that will be discussed are a resentment towards a ‘corrupt’ political and social welfare system, and economic grievances caused by the leaders of the established old parties, that the Italian…

The statehouse is built in the Greek Revival style which is a design type based on the buildings of Ancient Greece. This was popular in the US from 1820 through the early 1860s. It’s a masonry building consisting of Columbus limestone on the exterior which was taken from a quarry on the banks of the Scioto River. I chose to describe the architectural elements of the back side of the statehouse. Looking at the portico at the center of the building, the top contains the pediment space. The sima…

specifically by the Hittites. Based on appearance alone, the Lion’s Gate is more three-dimensional than other purely Greek reliefs, and the column is more plain than others, like the ones in the Treasury of Atreus. Perhaps, artisans from the Hittite Empire came to Mycenae in a trade of skilled persons between Mycenae and Hittites, so they could have done some the work themselves. Evidence has been found to suggest the Hittites knew and eventually allied with the Mycenaeans, if Ahhiyawa does…

The portico was surrounded by an agora (a square for people's assemblies), the territory of the temple, palaestra, which existed in every Greek city. Everywhere on the slopes of the hills there are stone theaters - the most notable were built in Delphi, Dodona, Oropos, Priene, Pergamum and Syracuse. A universal distribution of the Ionic order became popular in the temple architecture, especially in Asia Minor. The reconstruction of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus continued, a magnificent temple…