CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gracchi, Spqr, Tiberius Gracchus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

5 questions per class, overview of the lectures, main points of the lecture. Concrete allows romans to put up buildings very quickly. Or plaster the walls and mold and paint to look like marble. Next stage: put a flat layer of plaster up, and then paint in to add plaster details. Using angles and shading could make it look like there was a three-dimensional wall. Greeks obsessed with beauty, most beautiful and perfect way. Mosaic floor composed of small cubes of stone and glass of different colours then pieced together. As romans started to expand out into the greek realms of influence. Came in contact with the art of the hellenistic period. When greeks were defeated in battle, artifacts were brought back to rome as the spoils of war. A copying mechanism/market for greek art in rome. Portrait sculptures made of important people when alive or at time of death.