HIS 111 Delta College Winter 2015

1. The Roman Forum
Model of Rome under the Empire

2.  Foundation Myths
• Romulus and Remus
Capitoline Museum, Rome c. 500BC

3. Giambologna, Florence,
Loggia dei Lanzi

4. Tarquin-Etruscan prince
Brutus-Lucretia’s relative
Titian, Tarquin and Lucretia

5. Time of Augustus (Roman Empire)
Bernini, 1619

6.  Based on these
stories?
 Mos maiorum
 Pietas

7. https://sites.psu.edu/2014groupm/foundatio
ns-of-the-republic/the-senate-and-
assemblies/

9.  1st
Punic War-Rome
wins
 Second Punic War-
Rome wins war, but
loses most of the
battles
• Hannibal and Scipio
 Third Punic War-
Carthage destroyed

11. Tiberius Gracchus  Gaius Gracchus
Cavelier, 1861, Cornelia Gracchus and Sons

12.  Military reform
 Civil war w/Sulla
Munich Glyptothek

13.  Civil war w/Marius
 Civil war w/Senate
• Proscription
• “Save the Republic”
• Dictator till the job is
done
Munich Glyptothek

14.  New Man
 Military victories
 War vs. pirates
 Vs. Mithridaites
 Problems with the
Senate
Ny Carlsberg
Glyptotek, Copenhagen,Denmark.

15.  Pompey “New Man”
 Julius Caesar- old
family, but
impoverished
 Crassus-victor vs.
Spartacus and
wealthy slumlord
Crassus, Ny Carlsberg
Glyptotek[1], Copenhagen, Denmark
Julius Caesar, Location Unknown

16.  Pompey married
Caesar’s daughter,
Julia
• She dies in childbirth
 Crassus dies
 Caesar’s popularity
grows as he sends
back great reports
from Gaul

19. Coin issued by Brutus, 42BC
Death of Caesar, 1798, Camuccini