Western Roman Empire

The Romans are known for their architecture. One of their greatest pieces of architecture is called the Flavian Amphitheater also known as the Colosseum. It was made from 70 to 80 ce in the city of Rome itself. The Colosseum is a massive arena in the shape of an oval. This an amazing design that allowed for around 50,000 people to come and watch entertainment. The Romans invented concrete and used it to create vaults. Concrete and vaults are two of the biggest contributions the Romans made to…

Did you know that in ancient Greek architecture there were people to plan how everything would be laid out? Greek city planners used different components, such as columns, creative patterns, along with borders to design original, elegant cities. In their time, the Greeks made innumerable different buildings. A selection of ancient buildings is still around to show us this. The architects of ancient Greece had busy, difficult jobs, but they still created some of the most amazing buildings in…

Resurrection of Jesus Christ, spread throughout the empire, touching the outskirts of Palestine. Jesus preached in Israel during the time of Augustus, urging a purification of the Jewish religion that would free Israel and establish the kingdom of God on earth. He urged a moral code based on love, charity, and humility, and he asked the faithful to follow his lessons, abandoning worldly concern (International). Religion was highly regarded by the Romans and the up and coming reform of…

The latter, also referred to as the First Persian Empire, successfully conquered Egypt in 525 BC and instituted themselves the 27th Dynasty of Egypt. Finally driven out in 402 BC, the Persians returned less than a century later, however after only 11 years of rule, both they and the Egyptians were overthrown by Alexander the Great’s Macedonian Empire in 332 BC. Following his death, one of his generals assumed control of Egypt. Becoming Ptolemy I Soter…

In the Roman conquest of Gaul and Britannia, the Romans faced many Gallic and Briton tribes, most of which rebelling against their aggressive expansion in the north under the guise of claiming the tribes were barbaric savages. In Julius Caesars “The Gallic wars” he says tells of how “All Gaul is divided into three parts.”(Caesar, p.1) These three parts were inhabited by the native tribes of the Belgae in what we would now call Belgium, the Nervii and the Helvetii in what is now known as France…

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…

developing a sense of self for a person. In turn, the power to control the formulation of an identity, whether of an individual person or of an entire empire, is incredibly valuable. Identity played a crucial role in the development of Rome over the course of antiquity, but also in the modern period. Over the course of Roman history during the Republic, the Empire, and in the modern time period art and architecture played the role of emphasizing the uniformity of identity. This was done largely…

Aeneas and his son Iulus are chased out of their hometown of Troy. Aeneas is not on the run for his own purposes, however. The purpose of his journey is to give his son Iulus the opportunity to set up the beginnings of the Roman state (4.374-375). The story of Metabus and Camilla is eerily similar to that of Aeneas and Iulus. Metabus is chased out of his own hometown with his child, Camilla (11.734-735). They traveled and were outlaws for a long time before Camilla became…

The piece of work that I chose to examine for this essay was, “Satire VI (xi. 199-304, 465-503): The Women of Rome,” written by Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE). (Davis, William Stearns) The format of the scripture is poetry and was produced in Rome around 100 CE. The women of Rome were unlike those of other women in different civilizations. Women were not segregated in Rome and they were considered “…enjoyable company and were the center of the social life in the household”. (Eckert, Regina) Women in…

sometimes forget the history behind the writings. Scripture falls nowhere short of a book of power throughout time. Many empires have dominated throughout history by creating a sense of order and rule within mankind. Power plays a major role in the influences man has amongst other men. The most powerful ruling of their time was the Persian Empire and, later to follow, the Roman Empire. Ironically, both dominating forces influenced the interpretation…