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The Etruscans, Archaic Italy
Vocabulary
• Etruscan• Terracotta• Tufa• Haruspex
• Acroteria• Cella/cellae• Tumulus• Trempe l’oeil
The Etruscans, Archaic Italy
• Etruscans existed in Northern Italy (Tuscany) since as early as the 8th century BCE
• 7th-6th centuries BCE, Etruscans ruled as kings of Rome
• By the end of the 6th century BCE, the last Etruscan king was conquered by the Romans
• Highly skilled bronze artists
Ancient Rome
Vocabulary
• Patricians• Plebians• Engaged columns• Verism• Atrium• Barrel Vault• Groin Vault
• Forum• Republic• Empire• Mosaic• Villa• Fresco• Linear Perspective• Atmospheric
Perspective
Ancient Rome• Rome begins as a small village on the Capitoline Hill, the
largest of seven hills in Rome in the Region of Latium.• Virgil’s Aeneid tells the mythological founding of Rome by
Aeneas, a refugee from Troy and the son of Venus. • Other mythology attributes the founding of Rome to Romulus,
son of Mars, in 753 BCE.• Rome begins as a Republic in 509 BCE after the expulsion of
the last Etruscan king, Tarquinius Superbus.• Roman Republic politics is led by a Constitutional government
consisting of 2 consuls and a senate, elected from noble families.
• The Republic lasts until the rule of Augustus in about 31 BCE when it turns into an empire, to 400 CE.
• 211 BCE Roman general Marcellus attacks Syracuse in Greece.
Four Tetrarchs, Late Roman, ca. 300 CE
• Tetrarchy: 2 Augustii (Sr.Emperor) and 2 Caesars (Jr. Emperor)=four emperors.
• One of each in the Western capital: Rome and in the Eastern capital: Byzantium
• Porphyry
Constantine the Great, 325-326, Rome
• First Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire, Jr. Emperor in the West
• Defeats Maxentius in 313 at Battle of the Milvian Bridge to be sole ruler in the West
• Defeats Licinius in 324 to become sole ruler of the Empire
• Moves capital to Byzantium-Constantinople