The document outlines an introductory course on the humanities, focusing on significant events and cultural developments in ancient Greece and Rome. Key topics include the mythological origins of Rome, the establishment of the Roman Republic, and the transition to the Roman Empire, highlighting the Pax Romana and subsequent decline. Notable examples from the humanities, such as art and literature, are also identified in relation to historical events.

1. The Classical Tradition:
Greece and Rome
HUM/100 – Intro to the Humanities I
The Ancient World to Medieval Time
Prof. Francisco Pesante-Gonzalez
University of Phoenix – Puerto Rico Campus

2. Objectives
 Identify significant world events from ancient Greece
and Rome.
 Identify example of the humanities in classical
civilizations, such as art, architecture, philosophy,
music, and literature.
 Identify major key examples from the humanities that
reflect developments in world events and cultural
patterns in ancient Greece and Rome.

3. Empire: Urban Life and
Imperial Rome
 ROME MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGINS
 THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF THE ROMAN
REPUBLIC
 TURNING INTO AN EMPIRE
 PAX ROMANA
 DECADENCE AND DISSOLUTION OF THE EMPIRE

4. ROME MYTHOLOGICAL
ORIGINS
 ROMULUS AND REMUS

5. ROME MYTHOLOGICAL
ORIGINS
 AENEID

6. THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF
THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Tarquin the Proud
509 b.C. Res Publica
Patricians
Plebeians

7. THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF
THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
TWELVE TABLETS (451 b.C.)
Tribunes
Consuls
Senator

8. TURNING INTO AN EMPIRE
FIRST TRIUMVIRATE
 Crassus, wealthy Roman
Pompey, popular general
Julius Caesar, military leader

9. PAX ROMANA
AUGUSTUS (OCTAVIAN) 63 bD – 14 aD.
 Reforms
 Professionalization of the public adminstration
 207 years of peace

10. PAX ROMANA
 Aqueduct of Segovia

11. PAX ROMANA
 Colosseum of Rome

12. PAX ROMANA
 Pantheon of Rome

13. PAX ROMANA
ROMAN ARMY

14. DECADENCE AND
DISSOLUTION OF THE EMPIRE
 Dioclesian Reforms (r. 286 – 305
Tetrarchy
 Constantine (r. 306– 337)
Byzantium
 Romulus Augustulus v Flavius Odoacer (476 aC)

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