Caesar

This is a website I found about Caesar:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/caesar_julius.shtml

Julius Caesar was born on 12 or 13 July.And this website talks about

the story of Caesar.In the ensuing civil war Caesar defeated the

republican forces.I also found another website:

http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0085-julius-caesar.php

This tells more about the war between Caesar and the senates of Rome.

He didn't hear them and lead his army cross Rubicon River.After he

won the war (with senates),he gave himself absolute power over the

empire.He then proceeded to reform the nation, giving jobs and land to

the poor.

Picture1 and 2:Julius Caesar's statue.

Rome Gladiator

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/romans/gladiators.html
I found this website about Roman gladiator.
Although there are a lot of pictures,the informations

are still much.The word "Gladiator" comes from the

Latin word "Gladius".It means sword,so gladiator

literally means a swordsman.The best way to let a

man fight is use a man who has nothing to lose.That's

why gladiators are almost slaves,crinimals,and the

prisoners of war.However,some ordinary Romans

volunteered to be a gladiator.The gladiators also went

to a special school for them named "Ludi".

Picture1:Amphitheater of El Djem, in Tunisia(North Africa) (the second biggest in the Roman Empire, after the Colosseum in Rome).

Roman Art

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/art/index.htm
I search this site about Roman art.Roman art grows out of
Etruscan art.Because of this,it has a close relationship to
Greek art as well.Roman art as a type of its own really gets
going around 500BC with the beginning of the Roman
Republic.
In Roman art,having a good image of somebody's faca was
important to keep the spirit happy after they died so they

wouldn't haunt you.
There was also a lot of wall painting to decorate the walls of
houses during this time.It divided into four different styles.
The different styles of wall painting were found at Pompeii.

Picture3:In the first style, the fresco painting on the walls of houses is meant to look like marble panels (but it's a lot cheaper than marble panels!).

Picture4:Second style (with garlands added)
In the Second Style, the artists begin to add little things to the imitation marble panels in their paintings. This one has a garland. Other paintings have fruit, or flowers, or birds perched here and there.

Picture5:Third Style (with people and scenes)
Third Style Roman wall painting takes this idea further by adding whole
scenes to the walls. Here in this painting from the Villa of the Mysteries at
Pompeii you can see full-size people talking to each other and sitting on
chairs, as if there were another room there instead of a wall.

Roman Architecture

I found this website:
www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/romarch.htm about
Roman architecture.Romans are famous
for architecture,too.For example,Hadrian’s
Pantheon, a temple to all the gods.Nobody
would build a bigger dome for more than
a thousand years.The Romans brought
a lot of new ideas to architecture, of
which the three most important are the
arch, the baked brick, and the use of
cement and concrete.
We don't have much Etruscan architecture
left.Nevertheless,a lot of their underground
tombs servive.
Page2 talks more about Rome. In the
provinces of the Roman Empire, people were
also building forums, temples, bath buildings,
amphitheaters and apartment blocks.
Picture1:Roman baths in Paris.
Picture2:Baths of Caracalla.