PPT-Roman Laughter Week 3: Comedy and the making of Rome

Laughter must answer to certain requirements of life in common It must have a social signification p12 The birth of Latin literature In 240BCE Livius Andronicus stages one of his plays as part of the . Advanced Theatre. Background to the Theatre. Roman History. . Rome – in 753 B.C. was a town dominated by Etruria, North of Rome. In 509 B.C., the Etruscan (from Etruria) ruler was expelled, and Rome became a republic (just as Athens became a democracy).. Comedy. Comedy. A comedy is a play that treats characters and situations in a humorous way and has a happy ending.. Comes from the Greek words . komos. . and . ode, . meaning revel song.. Comedies don’t always make you laugh out loud, but usually at least amuse you.. Location. Italian Peninsula—halfway between Northern and Southern Italy. Midpoint of Mediterranean Sea. Advantage: Send military in all directions! . Roman Geography and Conflict. Place . Society divided into two classes. A.D. 284, Emperor Diocletian, a Roman general. Rome too big for one person to rule. Split Rome . A.D. 306 Constantine emperor. Moves capital from Rome to Byzantium. . (Rome’s position/location had weakened). Rome. Greece. Roman Republic & Empire. Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Diana, Minerva, and Venus. Very similar to the Greek gods and goddesses!. Roman gods and goddesses. Rome: Centrally located in the Mediterranean Basin and distant from eastern Mediterranean powers. (The Roman Theatre). 1. Roman theatre was comprised of a wide variety of events – yes, including the gladiatorial games.. Image: https://www.usu.edu/markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/121romhist.htm. To understand Roman theatre, it is essential to recognize from the outset that drama in the Greek sense played only a small role in it.. Rome was established in the year . 735. by a . group of people called the . Latins. .. For many years Rome was ruled by a people . called the Etruscans. The Roman’s learned many things from them . ‘…we shall not aim at imprisoning the comic spirit within a definition. We regard it, above all, as a living thing. However trivial it may be, we shall treat it with the respect due to life. We shall confine ourselves to watching it grow and expand.’. Quarter 3– Week 1: Republic to Empire. The End of the Roman Republic: Rather than happening all at once, the death of the Roman Republic was the result of civil wars and family feuds taking place over almost a hundred years. The accession of Julius Caesar as dictator for life in 44 BC was the culmination of a long line of events in which consuls acted unlawfully. During many of these events, the motivation of the consuls was to achieve peace and social stability. The result is a lesson for us that "the ends never justify the means." The Romans developed . innovations. that are still used today; what made them such . influential . innovators? . Definition of . “. INNOVATION. ”. : . something new or original (such as an idea, an invention, a device, a method). Comedy. A comedy is a play that treats characters and situations in a humorous way and has a happy ending.. Comes from the Greek words . komos. . and . ode, . meaning revel song.. Comedies don’t always make you laugh out loud, but usually at least amuse you.. Terms to Know. Province, the Colosseum, aqueduct, polytheism, arch. Roman Growing Pains. With the defeat of Carthage, Rome’s power and wealth grew, but it caused a lot of problems. . Had an empire without an emperor.. ‘Laughter must answer to certain requirements of life in common. It must have a . social . signification.’ (p12). The ‘birth of Latin literature’. In 240BCE, . Livius. Andronicus . stages one of his plays as part of the . What made the Romans LOL?. ‘Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo. Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.’ (p11).