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The Capitoline Wolf with Romulus and Remus

A bronze wolf statue made in ancient Rome

Twins Romulus and Remus are added later in the Renaissance

Temple Of Hercules Victor

It is Round/Tholos type

Corinthian Columns

Temple Of Portunus

Greek Ionic Colums, they serve no structural purpose

It sits on a podium

Tomb of the Spouses

Etruscan

Part of a Sarcophagus

Identify as Sarcophogus of the Spouses \

Theatre of Pompey

Used as a theatre and temple

Location of Julius Caesers assasination

Appian Way

Mid Republic

Rome’s first major highway, which expanded trade and allowed for the trasnportation of troops

Herculaneum Wall 1

First Style of wall painting

Trompe L’oeil: A visual trick which makes flat surfaces look three-dimensional.

Villa of the Mysteries

Second Style of Wall Painting

From Pompeii

Triclinium

Villa

Bust of Marcus Tulius Cicero

Late Republic

Cicero was a Politican, Orator, and Writer

Pompeii Amphitheatre

Arena used for gladitorial games, wild animal shows

Late Republic

Arched Colonade

Tableware from the Tivoli Hoard

Republican Period mid-first century BCE

The Metropolitian Museum of Art

Fabrician Bridge

Arched Structure

Built in Late Republic, Rebuit in Early Empire

Amphora of Garum

Garum is a fish sauce

It is made by fermenting fish guts and salt in the sun

Bust of Hannibal Barca

Second Punic War, Punic War with Carthage

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman statesman

Battle oif Cannae

Punic Dry Docks at Carthage

Remains of ship sheds and dry dock

Punic Era (Prior to 146 BCE)

Cave of the Sibyl at Cumae

An Oracle site where they would be consulted to help predict the future

Shown in Virgil’s poem The Aeneid

Temple of Jupiter Anxur, Terracina

2nd - 1st Century BCE

Jupiter was the Roman equivalent of Zues acting as the king of the gods. The sky and thunder god.

It was built in the Etruscan style out of Terracota

It was destroyed and rebuilt several times

Villa of the Mysteries

Pompeii

Second Century BCE

Renovated in first century BCE

Second Style Frescoes

The Rostra

Used by orators to address the assembled people

Marc Antony gave the funerary oration for Julius Caesar here

The Second Triumvirate proscribed Cicero here

On the long side, there is holdes intended to attach the prows of ships. This was done after the at Antium in 338 BCE

Coin with the head of C. Julius Caesar

It was the first time a living Roman placed their own face on currency

Many saw this as Caesar trying to establish a monarchy

Traditional Date For The Founding Of Rome

April 21st, 753 BCE

Founding Of The Roman Republic

500 BCE

Rome Destroys Carthage (Third Punic War) and Corinth (Greece)

146 BCE

Tribunates of Gaius Gracchus

123-122 BCE

He acted as Tribune of the plebs, introducing subsidies and reforms to aid the poor.

Social War And It’s Aftermath

91-81 BCE

A war between rome and its allies fought mostly between 91-88 BCE

Formation of the “First Triumvirate”

60-59 BCE

An alliance between Caesar, Pompey, and Marcus Licinius Crassus

Assasination Of Julius Caesar

March 15, 44 BCE

Julius Caesar is assassinated by his own senators at the Theatre of Pompeii. This was due to growing fears he would establish a monarchy

Roman Triad of Foods

The Medditerainian Triade Grapes (Wine), Olives (Oil), Grain

Cena

The Roman equivalent of dinner, which was held in the evening. It was typically the largest meal of the day.

Why were grapes most commonly consumed as wine, and olives as oil

Turning grapes into wine, and olives into oil vastly increased their longevity.

Triclinium

It literally means 3 couches. It was found in the dining room of a house

Which social group Did most of the elaborate dining rituals from ancient Rome come from

Much of our evidence for roman dining habits comes from the elites

Scaena

Proscenium

The stage of the theatre

Orchestra

Used as a dedicated area for speical VIP’s. This is unlike greek theatre

Did Intilectuals Believe in The Gods

In Ancient Rome, intellectuals did not believe in the sensationalized stories of anthropomorphic gods. They did however, believe that these stories were important to the Roman culture