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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Forum of Augustus
Date: 20 – 2 BC Place: Rome Significance: • Dedicated to Mars (who dealt with manhood and manliness, in addition to war and foreign affairs) • Axial teleological symmetry – porticoes, hemicycles, etc. • Boys may have come here to receive their first toga of manhood • Might’ve been where Senate received Roman embassies |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Ara Pacis
Date : 13 – 9 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • Commissioned to celebrate victories at Gaul and Hispania and to celebrate peace • Sculptures are Roman (not idealized and Greek) |
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Name: Augustus with Gaius and Lucius
Date: early 1st century AD Place: Corinth Significance: • Possibly heroic nudity • Gaius and Lucius look strikingly similar to Augustus, to demonstrate association to him |
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Name: Augustus with Gaius and Lucius
Date: early 1st century AD Place: Corinth Significance: • Possibly heroic nudity • Gaius and Lucius look strikingly similar to Augustus, to demonstrate association to him |
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Name: Potraits of Livia, Augustus, and Tiberius
Date: early 1st century AD Place: Arsinoe, Egypt Significance: Tiberius is Augustus’ adopted heir, and he looks like Augustus to indicate family relationships and continuity • Gaius and Lucius look strikingly similar to Augustus, to demonstrate association to him |
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Name: Potraits of Livia, Augustus, and Tiberius
Date: early 1st century AD Place: Arsinoe, Egypt Significance: Tiberius is Augustus’ adopted heir, and he looks like Augustus to indicate family relationships and continuity |
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Name: Mausoleum of Augustus
Date: 28 – 23 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • May have been based on tomb of Alexander the Great • Location of the original Res Gestae, a 1st- person documentation of Augustus’ life |
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Name: Mausoleum of Augustus
Date: 28 – 23 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • May have been based on tomb of Alexander the Great • Location of the original Res Gestae, a 1st- person documentation of Augustus’ life |
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Name: Mausoleum of Augustus
Date: 28 – 23 BC Place: Campus Martius, Rome Significance: • May have been based on tomb of Alexander the Great • Location of the original Res Gestae, a 1st- person documentation of Augustus’ life |
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Name: The Boscoreale Treasure
Date: 1st Century BC – 1st Century AD Place: Boscoreale Significance: • These kinds of objects, we rarely find from the ancient world - Because they have to survive (a lot is melted down) • Why was it in an agricultural villa? Could represent an assembly of items that the owner threw into the room before he fled - Could also have been a looter; could be an ancient looter or a more modern day looter? |
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Name: The Boscoreale Treasure
Date: 1st Century BC – 1st Century AD Place: Boscoreale Significance: • These kinds of objects, we rarely find from the ancient world - Because they have to survive (a lot is melted down) • Why was it in an agricultural villa? Could represent an assembly of items that the owner threw into the room before he fled - Could also have been a looter; could be an ancient looter or a more modern day looter? |
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Name: Reliefs from the lararium of the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus
Date: 62 – 70 AD Place: Pompeii Significance: • Shows the effects of the AD 62 earthquake |
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Name: Reliefs from the lararium of the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus
Date: 62 – 70 AD Place: Pompeii Significance: • Shows the effects of the AD 62 earthquake |
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Name: Vesuvius in a painting from the lararium, House of the Centenary
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Pompeii Significance: earliest known representation of Vesuvius |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Alba Fucens
Date: 303 BC Place: Alba Fucens Significance: • At the border of the territory of the Aequi and the Marsi • Polygonal masonry: only used in Italy from 5th – 3rd century BC • Could be used as a warning signal or a place for a Roman general to resupply • Was a transhumance route through the mountains |
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Name: Aosta
Date: 24 BC Place: Aosta Significance: • Last military colony established in Italy • Example of a fully developed castrum-style plan |
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Name: Aosta
Date: 24 BC Place: Aosta Significance: • Last military colony established in Italy • Example of a fully developed castrum-style plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Ostia
Date: 7th Century BC – 6th Century AD Place: Ostia Significance: • Founded as a veterans’ colony • Ostia is the closest harbor to Rome • Founded to protect the river bound and control access to Rome and between Tiber and sea • Ostia stands near the salt marshes, so it controls part of the salt trade • Follows a typical castrum plan |
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Name: Alexander Mosaic
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Shows us what Greek art might’ve looked like • Potentially shows that the owner liked Greek things, that there were Greek tastes in a Campanian town • Shows battle of Alexander and Darius and the battle of Issus |
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Name: Amphitheater
Date: 80 BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Oldest theater in Italy • Built by Roman colonists, and they imposed Roman hallmarks/styles |
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Name: Atrium in the House of Sallust
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • 1st style, because it shows replicated expensive stones and emphasis on flatness; demonstrated wealth • Believed to be a replica of types of wall painting that was going on in the Greek world |
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Name: Cubiculum M
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: villa at Boscoreale Significance: • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: Cubiculum M
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: villa at Boscoreale Significance: • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Faun
Date: 2nd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Mixed elements: Latin, Greek, and Samnite inside the house • Demonstrates the house is used to display wealth and culture |
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Name: House of the Mosaic Atrium
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Herculaneum Significance: • Shows that real houses do not follow an ideal plan • Shows the Roman tendency to allow guests to see through the entire house from entrance (to show wealth) |
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Name: House of the Mosaic Atrium
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Herculaneum Significance: • Shows that real houses do not follow an ideal plan • Shows the Roman tendency to allow guests to see through the entire house from entrance (to show wealth) |
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Name: House of the Surgeon
Date: 3rd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Surgical tools found inside, shows what kind of medical technology was available at the time • Things are named after what is found inside • Shows that there was a lack of privacy in Roman society |
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Name: House of the Surgeon
Date: 3rd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Surgical tools found inside, shows what kind of medical technology was available at the time • Things are named after what is found inside • Shows that there was a lack of privacy in Roman society |
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Name: House of the Surgeon
Date: 3rd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Surgical tools found inside, shows what kind of medical technology was available at the time • Things are named after what is found inside • Shows that there was a lack of privacy in Roman society |
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Name: House of the Surgeon
Date: 3rd Century BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Surgical tools found inside, shows what kind of medical technology was available at the time • Things are named after what is found inside • Shows that there was a lack of privacy in Roman society |
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Name: Ixion Room
Date: 62 – 79 AD Place: House of the Vettii, Pompeii Significance: • 4th style, so combination of 2nd and 3rd style; illusionism, but tiny intricate details as well |
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Name: megalographic painting, Oecus H
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: Oplontis Significance: • One interpretation of the painting is that they’re showing famous depictions of Macedonian royal family • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: Oecus (room 15)
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Villa at Oplontis Significance: • Like the wall is being dissolved • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space |
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Name: megalographic painting, Oecus H
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: Boscoreale Significance: • One interpretation of the painting is that they’re showing famous depictions of Macedonian royal family • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: megalographic painting, Oecus H
Date: 40 – 30 BC Place: Boscoreale Significance: • One interpretation of the painting is that they’re showing famous depictions of Macedonian royal family • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space, illusion of looking though wall into something behind it |
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Name: Room of the Landscapes
Date: after AD 64 Place: Nero’s Domus Aurea, Rome Significance: • 4th style, so combination of 2nd and 3rd style; illusionism, but tiny intricate details as well • Doesn’t make architectural sense |
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Names: Stabian Baths
Date: 80 BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Colonists changed the circuit of rooms; added things that were Roman styles instead of Greek or Italic style • Showed that baths, in Roman times, was a place for other activities like working out |
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Names: Stabian Baths
Date: 80 BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Colonists changed the circuit of rooms; added things that were Roman styles instead of Greek or Italic style • Showed that baths, in Roman times, was a place for other activities like working out |
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Names: Stabian Baths
Date: 80 BC Place: Pompeii Significance: • Colonists changed the circuit of rooms; added things that were Roman styles instead of Greek or Italic style • Showed that baths, in Roman times, was a place for other activities like working out |
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Name: Black Room
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Boscotrecase Significance: • 3rd style, so instead of illusionism, the wall is made to be pretext for the viewer: ornamented wall with tiny details and scenes, making viewers walk closer in order to see more clearly |
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Name: Black Room
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Boscotrecase Significance: • 3rd style, so instead of illusionism, the wall is made to be pretext for the viewer: ornamented wall with tiny details and scenes, making viewers walk closer in order to see more clearly |
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Name: Black Room
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Boscotrecase Significance: • 3rd style, so instead of illusionism, the wall is made to be pretext for the viewer: ornamented wall with tiny details and scenes, making viewers walk closer in order to see more clearly |
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Name: Red Room
Date: 1st Century AD Place: Villa at Boscotrecase Significance: • 3rd style, so instead of illusionism, the wall is made to be pretext for the viewer: ornamented wall with tiny details and scenes, making viewers walk closer in order to see more clearly |
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Names: Tombs (Porta Nocera Necropolis)
Date: 80 BC – 79 AD Place: Pompeii Significance: • Colonists had a direct effect on burial practices • These tombs become the way everyone is buried, not just Romans |
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Name: Triclinium (room 14)
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Villa at Oplontis Significance: • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space; illusion of looking through wall at something behind it • Problems with perspective in the painting |
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Name: Triclinium (room 14)
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Villa at Oplontis Significance: • 2nd style, so it plays with depth and space; illusion of looking through wall at something behind it • Problems with perspective in the painting |
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Name: Villa at Oplontis
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Oplontis Significance: • Location of many 2nd Style frescoes |
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Name: Villa at Oplontis
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Oplontis Significance: • Location of many 2nd Style frescoes |
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Name: Villa at Oplontis
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Oplontis Significance: • Location of many 2nd Style frescoes |
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Name: Villa of P. Fannius Synistor
Date: 1st Century BC Place: Boscoreale Significance: |