The Greatness of Rome 753 BCE - 476 CE

Dr. Michael Speidel, History

Ideas and Values:

  • moral fiber
  • never give up
  • public vs private life
  • tradition
  • gravitas
  • Stoic
  • Epicurean
  • spirit of wolf
  • Berserkers
  • clementia
  • humanitas
  • victory and glory
  • cruelty
  • authority
  • secret of statecraft
  • bread and circuses
  • frontiers

People and Things:

  • Etruscans
  • Brutus
  • Romulus and Remus, she-wolf
  • Juilus Caesar
  • Augustus
  • Altar to Peace (Ara Pacis)
  • Nero
  • Vespasian
  • Colisseum
  • Trajan
  • Hadrian, Wall
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Commodus as Hercules
  • Serverus as Jupiter
  • Tetrarchs
  • Valentinian II
  • Jesus as emperor

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10/03/03