to expound the ideas of the Greck atomist. wide valley in southern France. [Key:philosophical /Epicurus] [Key:aqueduct(引水巢)] Virgil and his epic,the Aeneid(niad/《埃涅阿斯纪)(p.43) 3.The Colosseum is an enormous built in the centre of Rome in 1.Virgil,the greatest of Latin poets,wrote the great epic,the imperial times.A masterpiece of engineering,it held more than 5000 spectators.Its interior is two-thirds of a mile round. [Key:Aeneid] [Key:amphitheatre(露天剧场)] 2.The Aeneid tells the story of how Aeneas('nias/埃涅阿斯)，one of b.Painting (p.48) the princes of,escaped from that burning city when it fell to Wall paintings from Pompeii and other towns near Naples (p.48) the Greeks,to carry on the Trojan cause in a new place,Rome. i.The Lady Musician and Young Girl (1st century B.C. [Key:Troy) ii.The Maiden Gathering Flowers (1st century A.D. Why do we say Aeneas is a truly tragic hero?(p.44) iii.The Landscape (1st century A.D. 1.Aeneas was a truly tragic hero because to fulfil his historic mission of 1.Roman painting was strongly influenced by the art of founding the first Roman republic he had to betray the great passion Unfortunately much of the painting no longer exists. of his life,his for Dido (/daidou/),queen of Carthage [Key:Greece] (ka:0id3/迦太基).While he gained an empire,he lost something no 2.There are,however,some wall-paintings from and other towns near empire could compensate,happiness in life. [Key:Pompeii /Naples] [Key:love] c.Sculpture (pp.48-49) 2.There is in the Aeneid a lingering note of which makes it i.Constantine the Great (4th Century B.C.) all the more poignant. ii.Spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem (81 A.D.) [Key:sadness] iii.She-wolf 4.Architecture,Painting and Sculpture (pp.47-49) 1.She-wolf is a statue which illustrates the legend of the creation of a.Architecture (p.47-48) Key:Rome] i.The Pantheo:(pen'ian/万神庙) ii.Pont du Gard(加德桥输水道) Division Two:The Bible and Christianity ii.The Colosseum(/kpla's1am/古罗马圆形大斗兽场). 1.The Pantheon is the greatest and the best preserved Roman I.General Introduction (p.51) which was built in 27 B.C.and reconstructed in the 2nd century A.D. 1.Among all the religions by which people seek to worship, It is in a round,domed form and has the world's first vast interior by far the most influential in the West. space. [Key:Christianity] [Key:temple] The close relationship between Judaism and Christianity 2.Pont du Gard is an exceptionally well-preserved that spans a 1.It was the tradition which gave birth to Christianity. 16 17