ARTH 260 Lecture 3: ARTH 260 week 3
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Jerusalem, destructiton of the temple of jerusalem, and the erection of victory monuments (arch of titus and the column of trajan) Rome takes over from greece as the main power. Carthage has control of purple, fighting for control of sicily. One of the largest powers in the greek empire. Syracuse remained independent from rome and carthage, but sympathetic with rome, but changed sides to cathage, this worried. Rome as carthage could use syracuse to invade. Rome gains more and more territory, skippio africanas helps. Lucius mumius invades corinth, he is a barbaric military leader, killing all men and selling women and children into slavery. Roman empire expands to palestinian lands of nabatea, judea and syria. They got the rewards of war from peace treaties as well as looting. (remember the sequence of philosphers/thinkers and their views on people like marcelus) marcelus was most known for bringing greek art to rome. Map of herod the great, his kingdom of judea.