This is an interdisciplinary introduction to the Roman Republic, including history, myth, architecture, sculpture, and literature.

1. The Roman Republic
509-27 BCE

2. Foundation Myths

3. The Capitoline She-Wolf,
c. 500 BCE (Estruscan)

4. The Rape of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin, 1635

5. The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Jacques-Louis David, 1799

6. Tarquinius and Lucretia
Titian, 1571

7. Lucretia
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533

8. Patricians and Plebeians

10. Roman Expansion

12. Hannibal Crossing the Alps on an Elephant
Nicolas Poussin, 1626

14. Power Struggles

15. Bust of Pompey the Great, 30-50 CE

16. The Murder of Caesar
Karl Theodor von Piloty, 1865

17. Architecture

19. Temple of “Fortuna Virilis”
(Portunus), 2nd-1st c. BCE

22. Pont du Gard, Nîmes, France,
1st c. BCE-1st c. CE

25. Sculpture

26. A Roman Patrician with Busts of His
Ancestors, Late 1st c. BCE

27. Poetry

28. Catullus at Lesbia’s
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1865

29. Lesbia Weeping Over a Sparrow
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866