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Imperial Rome: Bread & Circuses The Culture of Cities Wednesday, January 11/2006 SOSC 2730

Reading Mumford Chapter 8 (Rome) Chapter 9 (Medieval Europe)

Selected Civilizations

Other Engineering Achievements road network long-distance trade

Long-Distance Trade Pax Romanum (30 BCE-250) military control highways & sea lanes relatively safe from bandits & pirates

The First Triumvirate Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey) Magnus Gaius Julius Caesar Marcus Licinius Crassus

The Second Triumvirate Marcus Antonius Gaius Octavius Thurinus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (Marc Antony) (Augustus Caesar)

Long-Distance Trade trade flourished wealth creation spread of urbanization

Comparative Advantage economic specialization efficiencies spread of urbanization more urban places larger urban places trade nodes

Wealth Creation more trade ––> greater accumulation of wealth importance of agricultural surpluses more people able to undertake non-agricultural occupations artistic, religious, scholastic consumer goods (well-to-do)

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

Other Aspects of Roman Life the bath social gathering place private, public, imperial huge impact on urban landscape

Other Aspects of Roman Life gladiatorial games animals, humans executions criminals, ethnic/religious minorities brutality of Roman culture