1. The Roman Achievement 5.3

2. Objectives Summarize works of Roman literary figures, historians and philosophers. Describe art and architecture developed by the Romans. Explain how Rome’s legal codes protected everyone in the empire.

3. Literature, History, and Philosophy From which culture did the Romans borrow from? The Romans thought Greek art, literature, and philosophy were the pinnacle of cultural achievement Trade and travel helped to expand ideas within the empire, created “Greco-Roman” culture

4. Greek settlements in Italy

5. Literature, History, and Philosophy Virgil – Aeneid, helped to unite Rome Satire Historians – tell story of the Empire, positive and negative Virgil and Two Muses, Mosaic, Tunisia

6. Sculptors contrapposto Sculptors wanted to create realistic statues Julius Caesar Augusta di Prima Porta

7. Mosaics

8. Science and Engineering Romans developed domes, arches, and built roadways. Ptolemy – proposed Geocentric theory

11. New Law Codes Protect the Empire Civil law - applied to Roman citizens only -problem? Law of Nations – applied to all people under Roman rule, even non-citizens. Rome eventually extended citizenship across the empire, merging both laws.