"Is legendary(ie)"

Founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus

Humble beggings for a proud people

Year one in the Roman calendar

"Etruscan"

Roman kick the Etruscans out of Rome

Reminds us that Rome was a republic at first for about 500 years

"Horace"

The Punic Wars

1st War - fought evenly

2nd War - Carthaginians led by Hannibal almost conquer Rome

3rd War - Rome obliterates Carthage

Rome conquered both Greece and Carthage but spared Greece and destroyed Carthage

"Heaven"

Rome officially becomes and empire

Caesar Augustus ushered in "Pax Romana" = The most glorious period (200 years) of Roman history

Jesus was born during his reign

"Ben"

Pax Romana ends with the death of Marcus Aurelius

Rome begins its long gradual decline

"Glee"

Constantine legalizes Christianity with the edict of Milan

Christianity becomes a political institution

Christianity goes from being persecuted to becoming Rome's official religion

"Phoenix"

The so called "Fall of the Roman Empire"

The last Roman born emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by a German Cheiftan

Roman ideas continued for centuries

Scholars argue if whether or not Rome actually fell or became something new

So called "Greek dark ages"

The greeks moved from the Bronze age to the Iron age

Geometric Style

With the Archaic Period we see Greek culture begin to flourish

"Golden Age" or "Age of Pericles"

Starts with the Persian War (479 BC) and ends with the Peloponnesian War (323 BC)

During the late classical greek period philosophy flourished and Alexander the Great rose to power at the end of the Peloponnesian War

Hellenization - the cultural impact on the world by the Greeks

Before being conquered by Rome Greece spread it's culture throughout the known world

1 - The story of Diogenes and Alexander the Great

2 - The story of the Apostle Paul in Athens

Idealist

Died by drinking hemlock

Best known for the Socratic Method - Know thyself

Rejected the teachings of sophistry - life is meant for gaining success and wealth

Idealists

Contribution to Western Philosophy - Doctrine of Ideal Forms - which was an idealistic attempt to explain the nature of reality

Plato's major work - Republic - outlined the first utopia

Illustrated the Allegory of the Cave

Materialist

Disagreed with his master about the nature of reality since he thought the essence (reality) of a thing resides within the thing itself

Authored Ethics and Poetics

Statue of a male servant

Greeks built upon the Egyptian model

A temple with a single row of columns

Ex) Pantheon

Doric

Ionic

Corinthian

Integration of the hero back into society

Ends with marriage and fertility

Portrays the alienation of the hero from society

Ends with death of the hero who becomes a kind of scapegoat for the larger community

The tragic hero

Hero has a tragic flaw

Because of the this the hero is partially responsible for his downfall

The gods punish the hero more serverly than he deserves

The fall is not a complete loss - the hero learns something

By identifying the hero the audience experiences catharsis

Written by Sophocles

Model Tragedy

An epic written by Vergil

Served as a propagandistic function

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems or styles

Colosseum is a great representation of this

Practical

Imperialistic

Individualistic

Aqueducts

Highways

Basilicas

Public Baths

Greek Portraits - The ideal

Roman Portraits - The Particular

The romans shifted from greek portraiture in order to make their portraits more individualistic