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ROMAN LEGACY

• Roman Culture and Law: During the Late Roman


Republic, Rome had creatively assimilated the
Greek achievement and transmitted it to the
others, thereby extending the orbit of Hellenism.
• Rome had acquired Greek scientific thought,
philosophy, medicine, and Geography. Roman
writeers used Greek models; sharing the
humanist outlook of the Greeks.
LITERATURE
• Roman cultural life reached its high point during the reign of
Augustus, when Rome experienced the golden age of latin
literature.
• At the request of Augustus, who wanted a literary epic to
glorify the Empire and his role in founding it, VİRGİL (70-19
BC) wrote Aeneid, a masterpiece in world literature.
• Virgil, in his work, ascribed to Rome a divine mission to bring
peace and civilized life to the world, and he praised Augustus
as a divinely appointed ruler who fulfilled Rome’s mission.
• The Greeks might be better sculptors, orators, and thinkers,
said Virgil, but only the Romans knew how to govern an
HISTORY
• Livy (59 BC-17 AD), in his History of Rome, also glorified Roman character,
customs, and deeds. He praised Augustus for attempting to revive
traditional Roman morality, to which Livy felt a strong attachment.
• Roman writers who excelled in poetry include Horace, a son of freed slave.
His poetry touched on many themes-the joy of of good wine, the value of
moderation, and the beauty of friendship.
• The writers who lived after the Augustan age were mostly of a lesser quality
then their predeccessors. The historian Tacitus was an exception.
• Symphathetic to republican institutions, Tacitus denounced Roman
emperors and the imperial system in his Histories and Annals. In his
Germania, he turned his sights on the habits of the Germanic peoples,
describing the Germans as undisciplined but heroic, with a strong love of
freedom.
SCIENCE
• The two most prominent scientist during the Greco-Roman Age were PTOLEMY, a
mathematician, geographer, and astronomer, who worked at alexandria in the 2nd
century AD, and GALEN(130-201 AD) who investigated medicine and anatomy.
• Ptolemy’s 13 volume work, mathematical composition –more commonly known as
the ALMAGEST, a Greek-Arabic term meaning « the greatest». It summed up the
antiquity’s knowledge of Astronomy and became the authoritative text during the
Middle Ages.
• In the Ptolemaic System, a motionless, round earth stood in the center of
Universe; the moon, sun,and planets moved about the earth in circles or in
combination of circles.
• Galen’s theories dominated medicine down to modern times. By dissecting both
dead and living animals, Galen attempted a rational investigation of the body’s
working parts. Although his work contains many errors, he made essential
contributions to the knowledge of Autonomy.
ROMAN LAW
• Expressing the Roman yearning for order and justice, law was Rome’s
great legacy to Western civilization.
• Roman Law passed through two essential stages: the formation of
civil law and the formation of the law of nations.
• The Twelve Tables, drawn up in the early days of the patrician-plebian
struggle, established written rules of criminal and civil law for the
Roman state that applied to all citizens.
• During the period of the Republic’s expansion outside Italy, contact
with the Greeks and other peoples led to the develpment of the
second branch of Roman Law, the law of Nations, which combined
Roman civil law with the principles selectively drawn from the legal
tradition of Greeks and other peoples.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Chariot Races, wild-animal shows, Gladiatorial combat.
• Charitoeers, many of them slaves hoping that victory would bring
them freedom, became popular heroes.
• Wild beasts again each others, or against men armed with spears.
• Another consisted of battles, sometimes to the death, between highly
trained Gladiators.
• Rome left the west a rich heritage, which has endured for centuries.
The idea of a world empire united by a common law and effective
government never died.
• Latin, the language of Rome, live on after Rome perished. The
western church fathers wrote in Latin, and during the Middle ages,
Latin was the language of learning, literature and Law.
• From Latin came Italian, French, spanish, Potuguese, and Roumenian.
• Roman law influenced church law and formed the basis of the legal
codes of most European states.
• Finally Christianity, the core religion of the west, was born within the
Roman empire and was greatly influenced by Roman law and
organization.

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