Imperial Rome: Bread & Circuses The Culture of Cities Monday, January 16/2006 SOSC 2730
Reading Mumford Chapter 8 (Rome) Chapter 9 (Medieval Europe)
Selected Civilizations
Sources art/architecture archaeology written records
Sources art/architecture archaeology written records problem?
Sources art/architecture archaeology written records problem? sources
Sources art/architecture archaeology written records problem? sources: literate elite
Sources art/architecture archaeology written records problem? sources: literate elite not truly representative
Housing high densities lowest levels most desirable counter to the pattern we see in most cities today commercial operations along major roadways
The First Triumvirate Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey) Magnus Gaius Julius Caesar Marcus Licinius Crassus
The First Triumvirate Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey) Magnus Gaius Julius Caesar Marcus Licinius Crassus
Crassus
The House ground floor connected to water & sewer built around court yards (atrium & peristylium)
The House ground floor upper floor general purpose rooms, dining (triclinium), food preparation upper floor cubiculum small bedrooms (cubicles)
Social Stratification patricians 1,800 families middle class government officials, merchants, industrial employers proletariat tenement housing
Tenement Housing
The Bath the bath social gathering place private, public, imperial huge impact on urban landscape
Gladiatorial Combat gladiatorial games animals, humans executions criminals, ethnic/religious minorities brutality of Roman culture