• Cinema Italian Style:

• Seattle Art Museum (Plestcheeff Auditorium)

• Films start at 7:30 PM ($8 at the door)

• Films in this series include: January 15: Il Sorpasso/The Easy Life

January 22: The Leopard

February 5: Fellini Satyricon

February 19: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

February 26: The Decameron

March 5: Death in Venice

March 12: Ginger and Fred

March 19: La Grande Bellezza/The Great Beauty

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Films in Italian with English subtitles, all 35 mm.

• What is the traditional year given for the

founding of the city of Rome?

• 753 BCE

• What would Greeks and Romans find most strange

about this Etruscan painting?

• Women dining with men at a banquet.

• What is this object called and what does it

symbolize?

• Fasces: the power to punish and execute

• What is haruspicy?

• The reading of animal entrails for divine

signs.

• What does SPQR mean?

• Senatus Populusque Romanus [the Senate

and the people of Rome]

• Which are the two most important hills of

ancient Rome?

• The Palatine and the Capitoline.

• What does this statue represent?

• The Trojan group: Aeneas, Anchises,

Ascanius

The Roman Temple

Sacrifice by Marcus

Aurelius

in front of Capitoline

temple,

relief panel,

176-180 AD

Roman religious ritual:

propitiatory:

gain the good will of

the gods through

divination, prayer,

sacrifice

State religion:

pax deorum

Roman architectural eclecticism [Etruscan and Greek]

Etruscan Temple: frontal plan

Porch / Pronaos

Cella

Portinaccio Temple to Apollo, Veii: 6th-century BC

Capitoline

Temple,

Jupiter, Juno,

Minerva

6th Century BC

Capitoline Temple, Jupiter, Juno, Minerva

Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno, Minerva

Greek Temple Plan: peripteral columns

Cella / Naos

Stylobate

Stereobate

Temple of Zeus, Athens, 472-476 BCE

Components of ancient Greek temples

Five classical orders

used by Romans

Temple of Portunus, Forum Boarium, c 75 BCE

Temple of Portunus, Forum Boarium, c 75 BCE (pseudo-peripteral)

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Temple of Hercules, c146 BCE

Largo di Torre Argentina

Temple complex

Largo di Torre Argentina, Temple complex

Representation of the Human

Figure

“Married couple” sarcophagus, Cerveteri, 520 circa,

terracotta

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Etruscan couple: 2nd century BCE, Volterra

LARS PULENA, Early 2nd century, Tarquinia

• Three periods of classical Greek statuary

• Archaic: 600-480 BCE

• Classical: 480-330 BCE

• Hellenistic: 330-Roman conquest

Archaic

period

600-480

BC

Greek

Anavysos

Kouros,

6th century

Etruscan

Apollo of

Veii

c. 500 BC

Polykleitos, Doryphoros, c. 440 BC Mars of Todi, 5th-4th century

(classical contrapposto) Classical period 480-330

Aulus Metellus (Aule

Metele),

Orator (arringatore),

adlocutio

90-70 BC, Cortona

Etruscan-Roman

Man with portrait busts of

ancestors, late first century

BCE

--Roman verism (gravitas)

--pride in genealogy

--imagines

Republican Verism,

physiognomy reveals

character

Capitoline Brutus, Roman (1st century BC, on an Etruscan model)

Portrait of

Athlete from

Delos,

circa 100 BC

Greek Hellinism

211 BCE Marcellus’s

triumph with artistic spoils

from Syracuse

146 BCE Greece becomes

Roman province

31 BCE Roman conquest of

Egypt

Horace: Graecia capta

ferum victorem cepit et artes

intulit agresti Latio.

Conquered Greece took

captive her savage

conqueror and brought her

arts into rustic Latium.

• pointing machine

Pseudo-Athlete, Delos,

1st century BCE

Diadoumenos

Roman general, Tivoli,

75-50 BCE

Gnaeus Pompeius

Magnus-

Pompey the Great,

55 BCE

Julius Caesar,

Egypt,

c 44BCE

Egyptian,

Green Basalt

Titus Livius—Livy--(59 BCE to 17 CE)

• Ab Urbe Condita [The Early History of Rome]

• 142 books from beginnings of city from 753 BCE to 9 CE

• Padua; not a politician; writes during reign of Augustus (31 BCE to

14 CE)

• Book One:

• Founding legends: Aeneas, Romulus and Remus

• Regal period (753-509 BCE) 7 kings

• Overthrow of kings and foundation of Republic

• Book Two:

• Brutus defends Republic through sacrifice of his own sons

The Last Three ‘Etruscan’ Kings of Rome

• Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (Lucumo)

--Etruscan/Greek origins [from Tarquinii];

--characterized by ambitio and wealth;

--married to Tanaquil [woman who understands augury]

--Expands Senate with lesser families (demagogue)

--Murdered by sons of former king Ancus Marcius

• Servius Tullius (possible slave origins)

Census and organization of military on the basis of property

Marries his daughters to the king’s sons

Killed by his son-in-law Tarquin and daughter Tullia,

parricide (murder of the father), impiety

. Quote from Livy: “To Tullia the thought of Tanaquil’s success was torture… it was intolerable to feel that she herself should count for nothing in the making, or unmaking of kings.”

• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud)

• Rules by fear, does not consult the Senate

Building projects bring hardship on populace

• Rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius and her suicide:

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– Lucretia as example of female private/domestic virtue consigned for protection to male public/political virtue

• Lucius Junius Brutus leads rebellion against Tarquins and kingship is overthrown for Republic

Reign of Etruscan kings is a period of intense

Urbanization in Rome

• --Servian wall (earliest wall after Romulus vs. Remus

• --Cloaca Maxima (sewer, draining of Forum)

• --Paving of Forum

• --Circus Maximus

• --Capitoline Temple to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva