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Sample Table of 3 Romes

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Rome I
Rome II
Rome III
Dates
753 BCE-476 CE
476-1870
1870-
Religion
Pagan
Christian
Secular or Open
Government
 
Kingship: 753-510 BCE
Republic: 510-27 BCE
Empire: 27 BCE-476
 
 
Theocracy
Collapse of centralized political power, with a slow and unsteady development of the papacy into a powerful political organization.
Innocent III as the apogee of the papacy in international politics.
Limited Monarchy: 1870-1921
Fascist Dictatorship: 1921-1943
Parliamentary Gov: 1943 ff.
 
Christian Democratic Party was often the strongest into the 1990’s. Now Forza Italia is the leading party.
 
Views of Virtue
(What makes a good human being? What qualities are admired?)
Focus on the Republic:
Consider Livy’s republican heroes, Coriolanus, Cicero’s writings on duties. Much emphasis on “the citizen” as our proper fulfillment. Virtus.
Consider Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes; the cardinal (fortitude, justice, prudence, and temperance), theological virtues (faith, hope, charity), the seven deadly sins (gluttony, sloth, anger,
What human qualities are especially admired by contemporary Italians? What kind of people do they want to be? [Friendliness, pleasantness, helpfulness, openness, ???]
Art: Favorite Subjects
Human beings, political leaders, gods and mythology
Old and New Testaments, lives of the saints, doctors of the Church [Later, powerful families.]
[What would you say?]
Art: Favored forms
Marble sculpture
Fresco
Pebble mosaics
 
Mosaic
Tempura on Wood
Wood and stone sculpture
Later, Fresco. Later, oil on canvas
[What would you say?]
Architecture:
Characteristic forms
Basilica, aqueduct, theater, amphitheater, roads,
Latin Cross Church
Central Plan Church
Walls and towers for defense
High rise apartment buildings, industries and their headquarters, hospitals and schools
Education
[What would you say?]
[What would you say?]
[What would you say?]
Entertainment
[What would you say?]
[What would you say?]
[What would you say?]

 

 

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