1. Images of Rome
Literature, Architecture,
Technology

2. Golden Age of Augustus
Greco-Roman Tradition
• Lasted over 200 years.
• Ovid’s Metamorphosis
• Virgil’s Aeneid
– Early pastoral lyrics celebrated
artistry & rural life, modeled after
Hellenistic poetry
• Rhetorical Analysis on Greek
Poetry, Drama, Literature

3. Popularization!
• Ovid – “Poet of Stolen Kisses”
– Affairs with married women
• Juvenal – Satire about society
• Petronius – Satiricon
– Social Hierarchy broken
• Horace – Carpe Diem

4. Greco- Roman ART

5. Mosaics

7. Roman Friezes

11. Personal and political comments & cartoons

12. Imperial Building Projects
• Architecture:
– Pantheon
– Coliseum
– Forum
• Engineering:
– Roads
– Aqueducts

13. The Forum… then.

14. Roman Forum - the political, economic,
cultural, and religious center of the city of Rome
during the Republic and later Empire.

15. Urban Living
The Forum now… including part of
The Roman Road.

16. Coliseum

17. The Roman version of a Greek Hippodrome:

18. Bread
and
Circuses
• Romans were
promised “a
good time” in
exchange for
cooperation of
the masses.

21. AQUADUCT

23. For the Romans, cleanliness was next to… well, it was
CIVILIZED ROMAN BEHAVIOR!
The public bath was a social place to meet and greet, and spend the
Whole afternoon. The BATH and the TOGA were Roman institutions!

25. Thermium = hot bath
Tepidarium = tepid
Frigidarium = cold

27. Urban Life: in the Insulae

28. Insulae

29. Pompeiian Insulae

33. Domus
Peristyle – Columned porch, often with a garden
Tablinum – Frescoed room where the Roman man had his office & accepted guests, clients
Exedre – rounded nave opening onto an atrium, usually

34. Peristyle

35. Atrium

36. Domus in Pompeii
Pompeii

37. Pompeiian Frescoes
Tell us about life before Mount
Vesuvius erupted…

38. Roman Feast
Triculinium seating!

39. Revolt Against Rome?
• Spartacus…
• Boudicca…
• Jews…
• Christians….