Small Worlds: Display of Inwardness in Pompeiian Houses during the Late Republic and the Early Roman Empire by Myat Aung

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Title

Small Worlds: Display of Inwardness in Pompeiian Houses during the Late Republic and the Early Roman Empire by Myat Aung

Subject

Classical Studies

Description

Comprehension of the Roman experience is conceived through the exploration of antiquity: close examination of artifacts and ideas that the Romans encountered in their everyday lives. Myriad ways in which the city was perceived to the ancients stemmed from the ramifications in the physical fabric of the city they experienced. The interpretation of a Roman life is made up of minute incidences and events, one of them being the internal experience of a person, in relation to entering the private realms of a house. At the time of Rome’s transition from the Republic to the Empire, the articulation of an emotional experience that sprang from a spatial relationship with an interior of a house attracted writers and artists as an ideal escape from the turmoil. After Pompeii became Rome’s colony in 80 BC, stylistic changes that occurred in Rome during the transition emerged in the art and architecture Pompeii’s houses and villas, expressing the ideal of inwardness, beauty, and tranquility in an enclosed private space through elaborate construction and decoration of interior spaces.

Creator

Aung, Myat

Source

Senior Showcase Poster presentation

Publisher

Ripon College

Date

April 19, 2016

Rights

The author reserves all rights.

Format

jpg

Identifier

Majors: Art History, Classical Studies
CLA 430 - Variable Topic Seminar

Files

MyatAungClassicsPoster.JPG

Citation

Aung, Myat, “Small Worlds: Display of Inwardness in Pompeiian Houses during the Late Republic and the Early Roman Empire by Myat Aung,” Senior Showcase Digital Collection, accessed March 28, 2024, https://rcseniorshowcase.omeka.net/items/show/51.

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