Chapter 3
Empire: The Power and Glory of Rome

imperium

The Roman Empire in 180 C.E. - p. 67, Map 3.1

Latins

Rome’s Early History

Etruscans

Greeks

Phoenicians

sarcophagi

The Roman Republic: 509-133 B.C.E.

res publica

patricians - Roman Senate

plebeians - Popular Assembly

Roman army

287 B.C.E. – plebeians gain right to make laws

146 B.C.E. – Punic Wars end

The Collapse of the Republic: 133-30 B.C.E.

Imperialism

lati-fundia

46 B.C.E. – Gaius Julius Caesar

The Roman Empire: Pax Romana

30 B.C.E.-180 B.C.E.

Augustus – “the Revered One”

Christianity

Roman Law

450 B.C.E. – Twelve Tables of Law

Latin Prose Literature

Titus Livius – history

Marcus Tullius Cicero – Letters

oratory

epistles

Philosophic Thought

Lucretius

Stoicism

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Epic Poetry

Virgil – the Aeneid

Lyric Poetry and Satire

Catullus

Ovid

Roman Drama

Tragedies

Plautus

Terrence

Roman Architecture

vault

arch construction – p. 73, Fig. 3.5

Pont du Gard

Colosseum

Pantheon

Roman Sculpture

Trajan’s Victory Column – pg. 79, Fig. 3.14

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius – pg. 81. Fig. 3.16

Roman Aristocrat holding portrait busts of his ancestors – pg. 81, Fig 3.17 –

Painting and Mosaic

Realism

frescos

Pompeii and Herculaneum

mosaic of Roman matron – pg. 82, Fig. 3.18

Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes – p. 83, Fig. 3.19

Music

Beyond the West

The Qin Dynasty – 221-210 B.C.E.

Terra-cotta army of soldiers, horses, and chariots – pg. 85, Fig. 3.22

The Han Dynasty – 210 – 220 BCE

Musicians (bronze) – pg. 87, Fig 3.24