4. The People of Ancient Italy

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Roman Art and Archaeology

287 個評分

University of Arizona

Roman Art and Archaeology

287 個評分

The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the culture of ancient Rome beginning about 1000 BCE and ending with the so-called "Fall of Rome". We will look at some of the key people who played a role in Rome, from the time of the kings through the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. We will also focus on the city of Rome itself, as well as Rome's expansion through Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond.

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The Early Romans and Their Ancestors (ca. 1000 - 500 BCE)

In the Early Iron Age (ca. 1000 BCE), civilization in Italy was rather simple. The most sophisticated cultures in the peninsula were not the Romans at all, but rather groups to the north of Rome who have come to be called The Villanovans, who exploited the metal resources of northern Italy even before the officially noted founding of Rome. Later the Etruscans would appear (ca. 800 BCE), Rome's first great rivals. The Etruscans were a loose confederation of city-states north of Rome who even expanded into Rome and further south, as far as Pompeii. The Etruscans are particularly noted for their magnificent art, in particular the glorious painted tombs of Tarquinia.

1. Italy before Rome9:28

2. Rome before Rome1:33

3. The Sepulcretum1:03

4. The People of Ancient Italy5:13

5. Guest Lecture: Dr. Emma Blake on Bronze Age Italians14:44

6. Early Iron Age Chronology0:42

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David Soren
Regents Professor of Classics and Anthropology
Classics and Anthropology

It would seem that the bodies of really prominent male

members of the society would be burned and cremated.

And put into urns that were often shaped like huts.

And other lesser members and women would be instead inhumated.

And put alongside these highlighted cremation burials.

And there's grave Gods.

And the necropolis is used from about the tenth

century into the nineth century BCE..

After that, they moved the necropolis away, further East.

And that is probably one of the earliest signs that somebody

has an idea that the forum can serve for something else.

And the only reason why you stop burying

In a place is because the dead carry a certain impurity.!

They are dangerous beings, to a certain extent, and

so you don't want to have them where you're doing something else.

You don't want to have them where you're having some religious rituals.

You don't want to have them where you live.

And so the pushing away of the forum Acropolis's so-called Temple Cratum

is probably the first towards reclaiming that piece of real estate and

making it into something else.

And it happens as early as the ninth century.

This simple cultural level in the ninth and

eighth centuries BCE, was the way Rome actually looked.

It was a series of villages on the hills.

Tribal groups just beginning to get together.

A world of simple carts and draft animals, sheep pens and round huts.

Here in the Umbrian community of Blera Angelo Bartoli and

his group diligently reconstruct the early Iron Age on his six-acre ranch.

He runs a camp for

those hardy souls who want to learn how to make things in the Ancient way.

>> We have created here a center of experimental archaeology.

We study ways of life of

the man who came before us, mainly the man in Ancient times.

[FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN]

>> Angelo Bartolli is rebuilding

huts in the style of the time of

the first rulers of Iron Age Rome.

[MUSIC]

[SOUND] Later Romans would come to honor their mythical founders Romulus and

Remus, by showing their hut village right here on the Palatine hill in Rome.

If Romulus and Remus really existed, their world was simple.

And modest, but the legend of Romulus over the years has, well of course expanded.

[MUSIC]

[SOUND] >> This is the dawn of history,

a world emerging from the catastrophe of earthquakes and the fury of the elements.

And here, 750 years before the advent of Christianity, a mighty legend is born.

Romulus and Remus, twin boys abandoned on the banks of the ancient Tibur.

Found and suckled by a she wolf.

Their destiny, to found the city of Rome.

Land possessed by the pagan Sabine.

A tribe attracted to strange, orgiastic fertility rites.

>> Ahh!

[MUSIC]

>> But the people who made Rome rise from its simple origins may not

have been the Latins at all.

Ancient Italy had many groups before Rome became great.

And there were Greeks settling in the South of Italy and

on Sicily bringing their technology with them and

constructing enormous temples like those found at Peston near modern Naples.

[SOUND] North of the Latins in Rome, there was another group.

Italian archaeologist Perecle Ducati named them

after ruins discovered near the town of Villa Nova.

Arriving in North Central Italy before 1000 BCE.

They exploited the metal rich areas of the region and

they developed key towns such as Cerveteri and Tarquinia.

Trading and mingling with Greeks,

Phoenicians of ancient Carthage in North Africa, and even the Latins,

they developed into the people North of Rome who we call the Etruscans.

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