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Life in Ancient Rome
Chapter 10-1
Roman Culture
• Copied Greeks
• Changed the Greek ways to meet their own needs
Roman Art
• Greek style statues– Roman statues had flaws, unlike Greeks
Roman Architecture
• Used Greek porches and columns
• Added arches and domes
• Vault – curved ceiling
• Invented concrete, a mixture of volcanic ash, lime and water
• Buildings of concrete– Colosseum– Pantheon
Colosseum
Roman Literature
• Based on Greek works
• Virgil – Aeneid
• Horace – wrote satires (made fun)– Wrote odes – poems that express emotions
• Ovid – wrote works based on Greek myths
• Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia,[4] by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early neoclassical painting (National Gallery, London
Roman History
• Livy – wrote “History of Rome”– Admired Roman achievements
• Tactius – also a historian– Believed emperors took Romans’ freedoms
Roman Plays
• Many based on Greek – Seneca– Plautus– Terence
Roman Language
• Latin
• Became Europe’s language for government, trade, instruction until 1500
• Many English words from Latin
• Latin – foundation of Spanish, French, Italian
Roman Science
• Galen – anatomy (science about the structure of the human body)
• Ptolemy – astronomer; mapped over 1,00 different stars
• Engineering – – Roads and bridges– Aqueducts to bring in water– Sewers
Daily Life in Rome
• Forum – open space that served as marketplace and public square
• Wealthy Romans – large, nice houses
• City – crowded, noisy, dirty– Thieves– Fires/Buildings collapse– Government gave the poor “bread & circuses”
to keep them from rioting– Gladiators – fought for entertainment
Roman Forum
Family Life in Rome
• Large, extended families• Paterfamilias – the father, head of
household• Boys
– Some went to school and learned reading, writing, rhetoric (public speaking)
• Girls – Studied at home– Learned household tasks
Roman Clothes
• Toga – worn by men (after age 14-16)
• Palla – worn by women (after marriage)
Women in Rome
• Completely controlled by the paterfamilias
• Wealthy women had some freedoms– Own land– Run a business– Sell property
Roman Slaves
• By 100 B.C. 40% of Romans were slaves
• Worked hard
• Educated worked as teachers, doctors
• Punished severely
• Spartacus – slave who led a rebellion of 70,000 – 2 years later, revolt was crushed and 6,000 of
his followers crucified
The Fall of Spartacus
Roman Religion
• Greek gods and goddesses given Roman names
• Roman emperors worshiped
• Believed spirits lived in natural things
• Honored gods– Altars in the homes– Offered food– prayed
Roman Philosophy
• Stoicism – encouraged Romans to live a practical life
