The Roman Forum

Model of Rome under the Empire

Foundation Myths• Romulus and Remus

Capitoline Museum, Rome c. 500BC

Giambologna, Florence, Loggia dei Lanzi

Tarquin-Etruscan princeBrutus-Lucretia’s relative

Titian, Tarquin and Lucretia

Time of Augustus (Roman Empire)

Bernini, 1619

Based on these stories?

Mos maiorum Pietas

https://sites.psu.edu/2014groupm/foundations-of-the-republic/the-senate-and-

assemblies/

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

Tiberius Gracchus Gaius Gracchus

Cavelier, 1861, Cornelia Gracchus and Sons

Military reform Civil war w/Sulla

Munich Glyptothek

Civil war w/Marius Civil war w/Senate

• Proscription• “Save the Republic”• Dictator till the job is

done

Munich Glyptothek

New Man Military victories War vs. pirates Vs. Mithridaites Problems with the

Senate

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen,Denmark.

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

Pompey married Caesar’s daughter, Julia• She dies in childbirth

Crassus dies Caesar’s popularity

grows as he sends back great reports from Gaul

Coin issued by Brutus, 42BC

Death of Caesar, 1798, Camuccini