SUMMER 2012 TUESDAYS
The Republic To understand the arts of Rome we have to understand the politics on which they rest and the military struggle that underlay everything.
24 Apr
First, the conquest of the Italian peninsular. This military world underlies the initial architecture of the Republic
1 May
Now Rome comes into conflict with Carthage and the Punic Wars lead to substantial contact with other cultures - above all Greece
8 May
Rome becomes involved in the near east. At home the first major writers are, surprisingly, the very domestic comedians Plautus and Terence
15 May
Rome grows as a military venture, dominated by her armies and those who control them. Cicero stands out as a last voice of the old liberties
The Empire Proper With the death of Julius Caesar come the last convulsions of the Republican spirit and the birth of the Imperial power.
22 May
Out of war comes peace - but the Republic is dead. The architecture of public celebration reaches its definitive form
29 May
Virgil dedicated the works in which he celebrated Rome to Augustus and the heroics of the Aeneid are reflected in the sculpture of the age
5 Jun
The domestic world: villas and their decorations, gardens, streets and shops. The satirist Juvenal takes his own view of what is going on
12 Jun
The arts of love - taught by two of Rome’s greatest poets: Catullus and Ovid whose Metamorphoses are reflected in much of Roman painting
The public history of Rome after Augustus is the story of the (mis)management of the empire until the pressures within and without become too great, and it splits.
19 Jun
The empire moves towards its fullest extension; but its soul is concentrated in the Odes of Horace - and the tragic horror of Nero’s ‘friend’ Seneca
26 Jun
“Under this sign...” - We follow the course of the Empire through to its final years, only to see it survive in the Church and Renaissance Humanism, both guaranteeing its vital place in our own world
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