Page 264 266 277 318 320 334 337 339) 346 371 388 Table of Contents Keith Parker’s Notes from USC Volume 1 of 5 Freshman Year Content Art and Text in Imperial Rome Delta Chi Information East Asia Presentations Responses Italian Joint Education Project Macroeconomics Microeconomics Class Notes Assignments Writing 140 Sophomore Year Content Marketing Course Documents Exam Things Powerpoint Slides Math 218 Syllabus Course Documents Projects and Examples Midterm Review Medieval Civilizations Assignments Confessions SparkNotes Final Exam Social Problems Course Documents AssignmentsArt and Text in Imperial Rome Page 1 Art and Text in Imperial Rome Laocoon In Greek legend, a seer and a priest of the god Apollo; he was the son of Agenor of Troy or, according to some, the brother of Anchises (the father of the hero Aeneas). Laocon offended Apollo by breaking his oath of celibacy and begetting children, Thus, while preparing to sacrifice a bull on the altar of the god Poseidon, Laocodn and his twin sons, Antiphas and Thymbraeus were crushed to death by two great sea serpents, Porces and. Chariboea sent by Apollo, Domus Transitoria and Domus Aurea the Palatine. This whole area was laid out as a park with porticoes, pavilions, baths, and fountains, and in the centre an ant jal lake was made that under the emperor Vespasian was drained to provide a site forthe Colosseum. On the slopes of the Vela atthe east end ofthe Forum a grandiose colonnaded approach and vestibule were constructed, within which stood a colossal gilded bronze statue of Neto Octagonal Room _ Made so that light enters the room ina very majestic and dramatic way ‘There is a continuity of spaceArt and Text in Imperial Rome Page 2 -Messalina: third wife ofthe Roman emperor Claudius, notorious for lcentious behaviour and instigating murderous court, intrigues. Bor into a patrician family, she was married to Claudius before he became emperor. They had to children, Octavia (later Nero's wife) and Britannic Agrippa: powerful deputy of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. He was chiefly responsible for the victory over Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and during Augustus’ reign he suppressed rebellions, founded colonies, and administered various parts of the Roman Empire. OF modest birth but not a modest man, Agrippa was disliked by the Roman aristocracy. Nero: The fifth Roman emperor (AD $4-68), stepson and heir of the emperor Claudius. He became infamous for his personal debaucheries and extravagances and, on doubtful evidence, for his bur 1g of Rome and persecutions of Christians. Good Shit to Know: Nero's father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, died in about AD 40, and Nero was brought up by his ‘mother, Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus, After poisoning her second hhusband, Agrippina incestuously became the wife of her uncle, the emperor Claudius, and persuaded him to favour [Nero for the succession, over the rightful claim of his own son, Britannicus, and to marry his daughter, Octavia, t0 "Nero. Having already helped to bring about the murder of Valeria Messalina, her predecessor as the wife of Claudius, in 48, and ceaselessly pursuing her intrigues to bring Nero to power, Agrippina eliminated her opponents among Claudius’ palace advisers, probably had Claudius himself poisoned in 54, and completed her work with the poisoning of Britannicu ‘58. Upon the death of Claudius she at once had Nero proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard, whose prefect, Sextus Afranius Burrus, was her partisan; the Senate thus had to accept a fait accompli, For the first time absolute power in the Roman Empire was vested in a mere boy, who was not yet 17, ‘Murder of Agrippina: He was led to the murder of Agrippina by her insanity and her fury at seeing her son slip out of her control, ‘Seneca: Seneca was the second son ofa wealthy family. The father, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder) had been Famous in Rome as a teacher of rhetorie; the mother, Helvia, was of excellent character and education. In 41 the emperor Claudius banished Seneca to Corsica on a charge of adultery with the princess Julia Livilla, the Emperor's niece, In that uncongenial milieu he studied natural science and philosophy and wrote the three treatises entitled Consolationes. The influence of Agrippina, the Emperor's wife, had him recalled to Rome in 49. Became friend With Burrus, Seneea and Burrus, although provineials from Spain and Gaul, understood the problems of the Roman world. They introduced fiscal and judicial reforms and fostered a more humane attitude toward slaves,