ART 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Flavian Dynasty
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Triumphal arch- when you get a triumph you get a memorial statue, titus got an arch. Spqr (senatus populusque romanus)- by right of the senate and the people of rome, marked on statures when given by rome. People didn"t like them because they weren"t direct family members. Encapsulated all of the bad things of his past family members. In 64 ad of rome burns to the ground. He wanted to build a house but h couldn"t so the people think he did it on purpose. Ad 69- year of the four emperors. Senate making decisions for the first time in over 100 years. Spent his entire life in the military. Titus kills the jews and gets a triumph. Every next person who has a triumph has to walk under it. Spqr: senate has paid for the monument. Him riding an eagle shows that he"s becoming a god. Took the lifetime of all 3 flavians.
