Imogen Cunningham By: Kayla Malahiazar Imogen Cunningham Kayla Malahiazar.
Chapter Four: The Roman Legacy Culture and Values, 7 th Ed. Cunningham and Reich.
Transcript of Chapter Four: The Roman Legacy Culture and Values, 7 th Ed. Cunningham and Reich.
Chapter Four:
The Roman Legacy
Culture and Values, 7th Ed.Cunningham and Reich
The Importance of Rome
Cultural achievements Assimilation of influences
Role of music
Historical division:Monarchy/ Etruscan Age (753-510 B.C.E.)
Republican Rome (509-31 B.C.E.)
Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E. - C.E. 476)
The Etruscans and Their Art
Rome founded in mid-8th c. by Latins
Etruscans gained control by 616 B.C.E.Urban centers, engineering
Social, leisure activities
Trade, expansion
Etruscan ArtPrimitive but sophisticated, natural focus
Value emotion over intellectual appeal
The Bride & Bridegroom or Married Couple
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Capitoline She-Wolf
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Apollo of Veii
[Image 4.4]Wall painting from the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing
Republican Rome
Etruscan expulsion in 510 B.C.E.
New governmentConsuls, Senate, Patricians/Plebeians
Political equality / Balance of PowerHortensian Law
Increasing power / expansion
Social and political unrest civil war
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The Roman Forum
Literary Developments During the Republic
Ennius (239-169 B.C.E.)Annals
Tragedies adapted from Greek models
Plautus (254-184 B.C.E.) and Terence (185-159 B.C.E.)
Roman adaptations of Greek comedies
Catullus (80-54 B.C.E.)Roman lyric poetry
Influenced by Sappho
Quintus Ennius
Plautus
Catullus
Literary Developments During the Republic
Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.E.)Commentaries
Assassinated on March 15, 44 B.C.E.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLawyer, orator
Epistolary legacy
Ciceronian RhetoricAlliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Antithesis
Crescendo
Climax
Hyperbole
Juxtaposition
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Personification
Simile
Roman Philosophy and Law
Epicureanism
Founded by Epicurus (341-271 B.C.E.)
Extolled by Lucretius (99-55 B.C.E.)Intellectual and rational vs. self-indulgent
On the Nature of Things
Gods play no part in human affairs
Pleasure and calm composure
Roman Philosophy and Law
StoicismWorld governed by Reason
Role of Divine Providence
Roman StoicsSeneca
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Philosophy and Law
Julius Caesar’s Ius Civile
Law of the Twelve Tablets
Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis
Roman science of lawLegal experts
Natural justice
Republican Art and Architecture
Roman portraitureRealistic details
Express outer appearance and inner character
Propagandistic
Architecture as political mediumPublic buildings for glory of leaders
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Bust of Cicero
Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E. - C.E. 476)
Julius Caesar assassinated 44 B.C.E.
Battle of Actium (31 B.C.E.)Octavian vs. Mark Antony
Octavian inaugurated as Augustus (27 B.C.E.)
Vast, multiethnic empire
Emperor, bureaucracy, civil service
Roman army
Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil)
Augustan Literature: Vergil
Roman art promoted Augustan worldviewOfficial, public, served state purposes
Vergil’s AeneidTribute to Rome and Augustus
National epic of Rome
Human destiny and personal responsibility
Eclogues (Bucolics) and Georgics