ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Third Servile War, Ancient Agora Of Athens, Basilica Aemilia
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Increasing power of the army as an independent political force. Political machinery of the republic was inadequate to govern a vast. August precieps imperitor: revered first citizen military chief of staff. Spqr: senate and the roman people did this. Athenian agora : commemorative about rome and its people: powerful men to inscribe their memories on the landscape. Basilica : usually respresents 3 or 4th rebuilding. Build by caesar to replace curia cornelia. Burned down in fire during nero: resored with domincian. Adopted by chrstians as form for the church. Sponsored and paid for by aemlia man. Ad 410 after rome was sacked by visigoths. Greeks have with their goddess hestia, romans vesta. Triumph: grand parade of booty and prisoners. Arch of titus: domician for his brother titus for conquest of judea, scene from triumphal procession, simple inscription, titus was deified, victoria=victory.
