death as the great leveler. mosaic from pompeii, now in naples, archaeological museum. death in rome
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Death as the great leveler. Mosaic from Pompeii, now in
Naples, Archaeological Museum.
Death in Rome
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Republic to Empire:• 8th-6th cen. BCE:
Legendary kings of Rome
• The Roman empire “officially” founded 21st April, 753 BCE
• In 509 BC, the last king is deposed and the first system of democracy is imposed
Nature and Structure of the Roman Empire:
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On Octavian (Augustus):• Sets up a “restoration”
of Empire• Takes pre-emptive
political, military and religious powers
• Ushers in the Roman Principate
Nature and Structure of the Roman Empire:
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Nature and Consequences of Empire:
• Immense wealth from conquest
• the Pax Romana• a military state; practices
such as decimation• strong economy based on
slavery, agriculture, trade
Nature and Structure of the Roman Empire:
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Life in the City:• Civic overcrowding• Life (and death) in a public
culture• Construction of funerary
collegia (sing.: collegium)
Nature and Structure of the Roman Empire:
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Life in the City:• Civic overcrowding• Life (and death) in a public
culture• Construction of funerary
collegia (sing.: collegium)
Nature and Structure of the Roman Empire:
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Scene of imperial apotheosis, Hadrianic period (ca. 138
CE, Rome)
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Life in the City:• The funeral and theatrical
display
Nature and Structure of the Roman Empire:
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Roman sarcophagus featuring husband and wife with the muses and theatrical masks. Third quarter of the second century, Rome, Vatican Museums.
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Sarcophagus fragment: naked boy holds an animal by the tail and a garland of fruit surrounding tragic masks.Roman, 130-40 CE.Berlin, Pergamon Museum.
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The Muses with masks, 280-290 CERome: Museo Massimo: relief on the side of a sarcophagus from St. Paul Outside the Walls.
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Sarcophagus of boy, featuring putti as muses.Rome, Vatican Museum, Gallery of the Candelabrum.
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Poet reads from scroll to Thalia, muse of Comedy; detail,
Roman, 180-200 CE.Phrygian marble, part of
front of columnar sarcophagus.
From the Gardens of Pompey, Rome. London, British Museum.
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Sarcophagus relief of muses and poets.Vatican Museum, Rome.
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Sarcophagus of Iunius Euhodius and Metilia Acte. 168-189 CE, Ostia. Now in the Vatican museums.
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Death as the great leveler. Mosaic from Pompeii, now in
Naples, Archaeological Museum.
Death in Rome
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