Roman Art from the Louvre Educators' Resource Guide
Roman Art from the Louvre Educators' Resource Guide
Roman Art from the Louvre Educators' Resource Guide
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contents<br />
About This <strong>Resource</strong> 4<br />
Exhibition Overview 5<br />
Ancient <strong>Roman</strong> Society 6<br />
History of Ancient Rome<br />
Government—The Emperor and <strong>the</strong> Senate<br />
Citizenship<br />
Non-Citizens—Foreigners, Slaves, and Freedmen<br />
Leisure 10<br />
The Baths<br />
<strong>Roman</strong> Theater<br />
Circus Maximus<br />
The Amphi<strong>the</strong>ater<br />
Religion 11<br />
<strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Roman</strong> Gods and Goddesses 13<br />
<strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Roman</strong> Vessel Forms 16<br />
Interesting Facts about Ancient Rome 18<br />
Selected Works of <strong>Art</strong> 19<br />
1. Mirror, late 1st century B.C.–1st half of 1st century A.D.<br />
2. Mosaic Panel, second half of 1st–early years of 2nd century A.D.<br />
3. Portrait of Augustus Wearing a Toga, ca. 10 A.D. (head),<br />
ca. 120 A.D. (toga)<br />
4. Fragment of a Relief of a Double Suovetaurilia Sacrifice,<br />
1st or 2nd quarter of 1st century A.D.<br />
5. Portrait of a Woman, mid-2nd century A.D.<br />
6. Knife Handle in <strong>the</strong> Shape of a Thracian Gladiator,<br />
2nd half of 1st century A.D.<br />
7. Mosaic Panel, late 2nd century A.D.<br />
8. Aphrodite and Eros, Imperial <strong>Roman</strong> era<br />
Timeline of Imperial Rome 36<br />
Map of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Roman</strong> Empire During <strong>the</strong> Reign of Trajan (110 A.D.) 38<br />
Glossary 40<br />
Bibliography 44
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