Map of Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean

• Key Dates
• • Early Kings
  • Late Kings (Etruscan)
    ends 509 BCE
  • Republic
    (c. 509-27 BCE)
  • Transition to Empire
  • Julius Caesar (46-44 BCE)
  • Octavian/ Augustus
    (c. 31 BCE- 14 AD)
    became emperor 27 BCE)
  • Early Empire
  • Julio-Claudian dynasty 14-68 AD
  • ----Nero (54-68 AD)
  • Flavian dynasty (69-96 AD)
  • ----Titus (79-81 AD)
  • Good Emperors 96-180 AD)
  • ----Trajan (98-117 AD)
  • ----Hadrian (117-138 AD)
  • ----Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD)
  • Beginning of Decline
  • Commodus (180-192 AD)
  • Severan Dynasty
    (193-235)
  • Caracalla (211-217 AD)
  • Anarchy (235-284)
  • Period of Tetrarchs (284-306)
  • Diocletian (284-305)
  • Late Empire
  • Constantine (306-337)

General Terms
• aisle
• amphitheater
• annular or ring vault
• apse
• aqueduct
• arcade
• arena
• atrium
• attic
• axis
• basilica
• barrel vault, tunnel vault
• bust
• buttress
• castrum, castra
• cella
• centering
• circus
• coffer, coffering
• concrete
• dome
• dressed stone
• forum
• groin vault, cross-vault
• highlight
• insula
• keystone
• nave
• oculus
• peripteral
• pier
• podium
• portico
• rotunda
• rustication
• Serapaeum
• spandrel
• spolia
• springing
• stylus
• tessera, tesserae
• tondo
• tracery
• travertine
• vault, vaulting
• villa
• voussoir
• Core Course Thematic Links
• Artist Index
• Movement Index

 

Reading

• Art Across Time: Chapter 7: The Art of Rome

Ancient Rome
6th century BCE - 4th century AD

• Lengendary founding by Romulus and Remus (753 B.C.)
• Rule by kings to 509 B.C.
• Republic (509–27 B.C.); Latin language; government by senate and patricians
  • Punic Wars against Carthage (264–146 B.C.)
• Empire (27 B.C.–A.D. 476)
• Augustus first emperor; Virgil's Aeneid
• Domestic architecture; public buildings; concrete
• The Forum; round arches; domes; barrel vaults
• Assimilation of Greek forms and Greek gods
• Portraiture; wall paintings; country villas
• Rome falls to Germanic invaders (A.D. 476)