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Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
(c) A very common problem students have is recognizing that MgBr 2, for example, is composed of Mg2+ and
two Br– ions. We have seen such combinations as Mg2+ and Br22–.
SUGGESTED DEMONSTRATIONS
1. Properties of Elements
Take as many samples of elements as possible to your lecture on the elements and the periodic table.
See the series by Alton Banks in the Journal of Chemical Education titled “What's the Use?” This series
describes a different element each month and gives references to the Periodic Table Videodisc.
Pinto, G. “Using Balls from Different Sports to Model the Variation of Atomic Sizes,” Journal of
Chemical Education 1998, 75, 725.
2. Atomic Structure
Hohman, J. R. “Introduction of the Scientific Method and Atomic Theory to Liberal Arts
Chemistry Students,” Journal of Chemical Education 1998, 75, 1578.
3. Elements That Form Molecules in Their Natural States
Use samples of H2, O2, N2, and Br2 to illustrate elements that are molecules.
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4. Formation of Compounds from Elements and Decomposition of a Compound into Its Elements
Bring many samples of compounds to your lecture. Ignite H 2 in a balloon or burn Mg in O2 to show how
elements are turned into compounds. Also burn Mg in CO 2 to show CO2 is made of C and that MgO can be
made another way.
5. Ionic Compounds
Bring a number of common, ionic compounds to class.
6. The Mole Concept
To illustrate the mole, take 1 molar quantities of elements such as Mg, Al, C, Sn, Pb, Fe, and Cu to
the classroom.
When doing examples in lecture, it is helpful to have a sample of the element available. For example, hold
up a pre-weighed sample of magnesium wire and ask how many moles of metal it contains. Or, drop a pre-
weighed piece of sodium metal into a dish of water on the overhead projector, and ask how many moles of
sodium reacted.
7. Molar Quantities
Display molar quantities of NaCl, H2O, sugar, and common ionic compounds. Especially show some
hydrated salts to emphasize the inclusion of H2O in their molar mass.
Display a teaspoon of water and ask how many moles, how many molecules, and how many total atoms
are contained.
Display a piece of CaCO3 and ask how many moles are contained in the piece and then how many
total atoms.
8. Weight Percent of Elements
When talking about weight percent of elements, use NO2 as an example and then make NO2 from Cu and
nitric acid.
9. Determine the Formula of a Hydrated Compound
Heat samples of hydrated CoSO4 or CuSO4 to illustrate analysis of hydrated compounds and the color
change that can occur when water is released and evaporated.
For the discussion of analysis, heat a sample of CoCl2·6 H2O in a crucible to illustrate how to determine the
number of waters of hydration and also discuss the distinctive color change observed during this process.
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2.2 Mass number is the sum of the number of protons and number of neutrons for an atom. Atomic mass is the
mass of an atom. When the mass is expressed in u, the mass of a proton and of a neutron are both
approximately one. Because the mass of electrons is small relative to that of a proton or neutron, the
mass number approximates the atomic mass.
2.3 Ratio of diameter of nucleus to diameter of electron cloud is 2 × 10 −3 m (2 mm) to 200 m or 1:10 5. For
the diameter of the atom (i.e., the electron cloud) = 1 × 10 −10 m (1 × 10−8 cm), the diameter of the
nucleus is 1 × 10−10 m/105 = 1 × 10−15 m = 1 × 10−13 cm = 1 fm.
2.4 Each gold atom has a diameter of 2 145 pm = 290. pm
12
36 cm · 1 m · 10 pm · 1 Au atom = 1.2 109 Au atoms
100 cm 1m 290. pm
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2.5 (a) 12 Mg (b) 48 Ti (c) 62 Z
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n
59 244 184
2.6 (a) 28 Ni (b) 94 Pu (c) 74 W
2.8 (a) Number of pro tons = number of el ectrons = 43; number of neutrons = 56
(b) Number of pro tons = number of el ectrons = 95; number of neutrons = 146
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mass electron 9.109383 10 g
2.9 = = 5.446170 10–4
mass proton 1.672622 10–24 g
The proton is 1834 times more massive than an electron. Dalton’s estimate was off by a factor of about 2.
2.10 Negatively charged electrons in the cathode-ray tube collide with He atoms, splitting the atom into an
electron and a He+ cation. The electrons continued to be attracted to the anode while the cations
passed through the perforated cathode.
2.11 Alpha particles are positively charged, beta particles are negatively charged, and gamma particles are
neutral. Alpha particles have more mass than beta particles.
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2.12 Atoms are not solid, hard, or impenetrable. They have mass (an important aspect of Dalton’s hypothesis),
and we now know that atoms are in rapid motion at all temperatures above absolute zero (the kinetic-
molecular theory).
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2.13 O/12C = 15.995 u/12.000 u = 1.3329
2.16 Atomic number of Ag is 47; both isotopes have 47 protons and 47 electrons.
11H,
2.17 protium: one proton, one electron
2
1H, deuterium: one proton, one electron, one neutron
3
1H, tritium: one proton, one electron, two neutrons
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9 X, 9 X, and 9X are isotopes of X
The atomic weight of thallium is 204.3833. The fact that this weight is closer to 205 than 203 indicates
2.18 that the 205 isotope is the more abundant.
2.19
2.20 Strontium has an atomic weight of 87.62 so 88Sr is the most abundant.
2.21 (6Li mass )(% abundance) + (7Li mass)(% abundance) = atomic weight of Li
(6.015121 u)(0.0750) + (7.016003 u)(0.9250) = 6.94 u
2.22 (24Mg mass)(% abundance) + (25Mg mass)(% abundance) + (26Mg mass)(% abundance)
= atomic weight of Mg
(23.985 u)(0.7899) + (24.986 u)(0.1000) + (25.983 u)(0.1101)
= 24.31 u
2.23 Let x represent the abundance of 69Ga and (1 – x) represent the abundance of 71Ga.
69.723 u = (x)(68.9257 u) + (1 – x)(70.9249 u)
x = 0.6012; 69Ga abundance is 60.12%, 71Ga abundance is 39.88%
2.24 Let x represent the abundance of 151Eu and (1 – x) represent the abundance of 153Eu.
151.965 u = (x)(150.9197 u) + (1 – x)(152.9212 u)
x = 0.4777; 151Eu abundance is 47.77%, 153Eu abundance is 52.23%
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2.27 Periods 2 and 3 have 8 elements, Periods 4 and 5 have 18 elements, and Period 6 has 32 elements.
2.28 There are 26 elements in the seventh period, the majority of them are called the Actinides, and many of
them are man-made elements.
2.29 (a) C, Cl
(b) C, Cl, Cs, Ca
(c) Ce
(d) Cr, Co, Cd, Cu, Ce, Cf, Cm
(e) Cm, Cf
(f) Cl
2.30 There are many correct answers for parts (a) and (d). Possible answers are shown below.
(a) C, carbon (c) Cl, chlorine
(b) Rb, rubidium (d) Ne, neon
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Structural formula:
Structural formula:
2+
2.35 (a) Mg (b) Zn2+ (c) Ni2+ (d) Ga3+
2–
2.36 (a) Se (b) F– (c) Fe2+, Fe3+ (d) N3–
2+
2.37 (a) Ba (e) S2–
–
(b) Ti4+ (f) ClO4
2+
(c) PO43– (g) Co
– 2–
(d) HCO3 (h) SO4
– +
2.38 (a) MnO4 (d) NH4 (b)
NO2– 3–
(e) PO4 (c)
H2PO4– (f) SO3
2–
2.39 Potassium loses 1 electron when it becomes a monatomic ion. Argon has the same number of electrons as
the K+ ion.
2.40 They both gain two electrons. O2– has the same number of electrons as Ne and S2– has the same number
of electrons as Ar.
2.44 (a) 1 Mg
2+
ion, 2 CH3CO2– ions 4+ 2–
(d) 1 Ti ion, 2 SO4 ions
3+ – + –
(b) 1 Al ion, 3 OH ions (e) 1 K ion, 1 H2PO4 ion
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2+
(c) 1 Cu ion, 1 CO32– ion 2+ 2–
(f) 1 Ca ion, 1 HPO4 ion
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2+
2.46 (a) Pt : PtCl2 Pt4+: PtCl4
2+
(b) Pt : PtS Pt4+: PtS2
2.47 (a) incorrect, AlCl3 (c) correct
(b) incorrect, KF (d) correct
2.55 The force of attraction is stronger in NaF than in NaI because the distance between ion centers is smaller in
NaF (235 pm) than in NaI (322 pm).
2.56 The attractive forces are stronger in CaO because the ion charges are greater (+2/–2 in CaO and +1/–1 in
NaCl).
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27.0 g Al
2.61 (a) 2.5 mol Al · = 68 g Al
1 mol Al
55.85 g Fe
(b) 1.25 10–3 mol Fe · = 0.0698 g Fe
1 mol Fe
40.1 g Ca
(c) 0.015 mol Ca · = 0.60 g Ca
1 mol Ca
20.18 g Ne
(d) 653 mol Ne · = 1.32 104 g Ne 1
mol Ne
197.0 g Au
2.62 (a) 4.24 mol Au · = 835 g Au
4.003 g He
(b) 15.6 mol He · = 62.4 g He
1 mol He
195 g Pt
(c) 0.063 mol Pt · = 12 g Pt
1 mol Pt
244.7 g Pu
(d) 3.63 10–4 mol Pu · = 0.0888 g Pu 1
mol Pu
1 mol Cu
2.63 (a) 127.08 g Cu · 63. 546 g Cu = 1.9998 mol Cu
1 mol Li
(b) 0.012 g Li · = 1.7 10–3 mol Li
6.94 g Li
1g 1 mol Am
(c) 5.0 mg Am · 3
· = 2.1 10–5 mol Am
10 mg 243 g Am
1 mol Al
1 mol Na
2.64 (a) 16.0 g Na · 22.99 g Na = 0.696 mol Na
1 mol Sn
(b) 0.876 g Sn · 118.7 g Sn = 7.38 10–3 mol Sn
1 mol Pt
(c) 0.0034 g Pt · = 1.7 10–5 mol Pt
195 g Pt
1 mol Xe
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2.65 Helium has the smallest molar mass and will have the largest number of atoms. Iron has the largest molar
mass and the smallest number of atoms.
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1 mol He 6.0210 He atoms
1.0 g He · 4.00 g He · 1 mol He = 1.5 1023 He atoms
1 mol K
2.66 0.10 g K · = 0.0026 mol K
39.0983 g K
1 mol Mo
0.10 g Mo · = 0.0010 mol Mo
95.96 g Mo
1 mol Cr
0.10 g Cr · = 0.0019 mol Cr
51.9961g Cr
1 mol Al
0.10 g Al · = 0.0037 mol Al
26.9815 g
0.0010 mol Mo < 0.0019 mol Cr < 0.0026 mol K < 0.0037 mol Al
1 mol Ca
2.67 3.99 g Ca · = 0.0996 mol Ca
40.078 g Ca
1 mol P
1.85 g P · = 0.0597 mol P
30.9737 g
1 mol O
4.14 g O · = 0.259 mol O
15.9994 g O
1 mol H
0.02 g H · = 0.02 mol H
1.00794 g H
0.02 mol H < 0.0597 mol P < 0.0996 mol Ca < 0.259 mol O
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1 mol Ga 6.02 10 Ga atoms
2.68 52 g Ga · 69.7 g Ga · 1 mol Ga = 4.5 1023 Ga atoms
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1 mol Al 6.02 10 Al atoms
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6.022 10 As atoms
112 g As · 1 mol As · = 9.00 1023 As atoms
74.92 g As 1 mol As
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60.10 g C H OH
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2.73 (a) 0.0255 mol C3H7OH· = 1.53 g C3H7OH
1 mol C3 H7OH
116.2 g C4 H8 N2 O2
(b) 0.123 mol C4H8N2O2 · = 14.3 g C4H8N2O2
1 mol C4 H8 N2 O2
102.2 g C5 H10 S
(c) 0.123 mol C5H10S · = 12.6 g C5H10S
1 mol C5 H10 S
191.3 g C12 H17 NO
(d) 0.123 mol C12H17NO · = 23.5 g C12H17NO
1 mol C12 H17 NO
1 mol SO3
1 S atom
7.52 1024 molecules SO3 · 7.52 1024 molecules SO3 ·
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= 7.52 1024 S
1 SO3 molecule
atoms
3 O atoms
1 SO3 molecule
= 2.26 1025 O
atoms
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2.78(a) 324 mg C9H8O4 · 1g · 1 mol C9 H8O4 = 1.80 10 mol C9H8O4
103 mg 180.2 g C9 H8O4
1g 1 mol NaHCO 3
3
1904 mg NaHCO3 · 10 mg · 84.007 g NaHCO3 = 0.02266 mol NaHCO3
–3
1000. mg C6H8O7 · 1g · 1 mol C6 H8O7 = 5.205 10 mol C6H8O7
103 mg 192.13 g C6 H8O7
6.022 1023 molecules
(b) 1.8010–3 mol C9H8O4 · = 1.08 1021 molecules
C9H8O4 1 mol C9 H8O4
207.2 g Pb 32.07 g S
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(10)(12.01) g C (14)(1.008) g H
· 100% = 9.395% H
(c) 150.21 g C10 H14O · 100% = 79.95% C 150.21 g C10 H14O
16.00 g O
150.21 g C10 H14O · 100% = 10.65% O
(8)(12.01) g C (10)(1.008) g H
2.80 (a) · 100% = 57.82% C · 100% = 6.066% H
166.18 g C8H10 N2O2
166.18 g C8H10 N2O2
(2)(14.01) g N (2)(16.00) g O
· 100% = 16.86% N · 100% = 19.26% O
166.18 g C8H10 N2O2 166.18 g C8H10 N2O2
(10)(12.01) g C (20)(1.008) g H
· 100% = 12.90% H
(b) 156.26 g C10 H20O · 100% = 76.86% C 156.26 g C10 H20O
16.00 g O
156.26 g C10 H20O · 100% = 10.24% O
58.93 g Co (2)(35.45) g Cl
· 100% = 29.80% Cl
(c) 237.93 g CoCl2 6 H2O · 100% = 24.77% Co 237.93 g CoCl2 6 H2O
(12)(1.008) g H (6)(16.00) g O
· 100% = 40.35% O
237.93 g CoCl2 6 H2O · 100% = 5.084% H 237.93 g CoCl2 6 H2O
63.55 g Cu
2.81 95.62 g CuS ·100% = 66.46% Cu
100.00 g CuS
10.0 g Cu · = 15.0 g CuS
47.87 g Ti
2.82 · 100% = 31.55% Ti
151.71 g FeTiO3
100.00 g FeTiO3
750 g Ti · = 2.4 103 g FeTiO3
30.35 g Ti
With few exceptions the Hellenic temple was oriented; its four sides
facing exactly the four points of the compass, the principal entrance being
on the east. It opened into the cella which was usually divided into what
may be called a nave and side aisles by two rows of columns which carried
smaller columns that supported the pitch of the roof. Where the cella was
narrow, as in the Temple of Apollo Epicurios (“The Helper”) at Bassæ,
near Phigaleia, the rows of columns were replaced by half-columns,
attached to projections from side walls. The cella was occupied by the
statue of the deity, which in the case of the Parthenon was the Athene
Parthenos, the Maiden Athene, one of the most renowned works of Phidias.
The draped figure of the goddess was represented standing, armed with
helmet, spear and shield, supporting in one hand a Wingèd Victory. The
statue was about forty feet high and of the kind known as
“chryselephantine,” the draperies and accessories being of gold plates, the
flesh parts ivory, with precious stones inserted in the eyes.
Behind this statue was the entrance to a small room, situated between the
cella and the opisthodomos, an exceptional feature from which the name of
the temple was derived. It was the Parthenon proper, or Virgin’s Chamber,
which seems to have been used as a treasury. Its ceiling was supported by
four Ionic columns.
The Ionic order in conjunction with the Doric was also employed in the
Propylæa or monumental gateway of the Acropolis. This masterpiece of
Mnesicles presents an irregularity of plan, exhibiting the Hellenic
architect’s readiness to adapt his design to the peculiarities of the site.
While Doric columns mark the exterior, Ionic were used in the interior to
dignify the central passageway. A similar use of this order for interior
embellishment was adopted by Ictinus, the chief architect of the Parthenon,
in his otherwise Doric design of the Temple of Apollo Epicurios.
On the other hand, the Ionic order was employed on the exterior of the
Erechtheion, another work of Mnesicles also irregular in plan. It occupies a
sloping site on the Acropolis, where an older temple, burnt by the Persians,
had stood. Spoils of the Persian conquest were preserved in it with other
relics, held in special veneration. The nucleus of the design is a cella
without colonnades (apteral), the sanctuary of Athena Polias (the City’s
Guardian) and of Erechtheus (a mythic hero of the Athenians) and the
Ocean-god, Poseidon. The exterior is distinguished by two Ionic porticoes,
and by a third, a smaller one, in which the columns are replaced by
caryatides, six draped female figures whose heads support the architrave.
All these figures face south, the three to the west resting their weight on the
right legs; the three eastern on the left—in each case the outer legs—thus
giving to the outer contour of their bodies the effect of entasis.
Another Ionic example on the Acropolis is the Temple of Athene Nike
(Victory), known as the Temple of Nike Apteros; the term “Wingless,”
however, not describing the statue of the goddess but, as used above, the
style of the design—without colonnades.
CHAPTER III
ROMAN CIVILISATION
Such empire as Hellas achieved was succeeded by the Roman Empire. The
earlier, as we have seen, was an empire loosely founded on kinship of race,
ideals, and character, and on common interests of commerce. It was an
empire of individualism; preserving the individuality of cities and their
individual states, producing a few men of rare individuality and, as it spread
throughout the Mediterranean, planting colonies which maintained their
independence both against the Motherland of Hellas and the people in their
immediate surroundings. It was, from the first, an empire of the spirit and,
as such, survived its physical dissolution and has maintained its dominion
over the human mind even to the present time.
On the contrary, the Roman Empire, in so far as it succeeded, was an
empire of constructive organisation. It grew, cell by cell, each added cell
becoming gradually impregnated with the life-principle of the earliest one,
so that every part of the unwieldy body was an organic part of the whole.
Thus, in time, each independent city and its adjoining community, alien
races and huge slices of foreign territory, became gradually absorbed into
the practical system of government that originated with the little settlement
of Latins which first occupied the Palatine Hill and then extended its
authority over the seven hills of Rome. Part after part became absorbed into
the system of the Lex Romana and enjoyed the benefits of the Pax Romana.
The Roman citizenship, judiciously extended over the whole empire,
carried with it substantial rights and equally substantial duties. The
provinces of the empire contributed men of learning, generals, and
statesmen to the central government. In time some of the provinces, notably
those of Spain and Southern France, became more characteristically Roman
than Rome herself. They had absorbed her system and her culture, and, far
removed from the petty intrigues which convulsed the capital, reached a
degree of civilisation that represented the finest product of the Roman ideal;
an ideal that included individual uprightness, a sense of service and self-
sacrifice for the common weal, and a high regard for order. It was a
practical ideal, little concerned with abstractions, not devoted to excessive
refinement, but centred on the effectual accomplishment of the individual
and collective requirements of everyday life.
It is true that this ideal was never fully achieved. This is only to say that
the ideal was truly human and therefore at the mercy of human chances and
weaknesses. Moreover, that it was really an ideal; a principle of life, that is
to say, which by reason of its bigness was only possible of partial
achievement. And if the Romans failed in achieving theirs, they failed
nobly, and with sufficient success to have left behind them a legacy of law
and order and constructive principles of government that, like the cultural
ideals of the Hellenes, survive to the present time.
And the Roman Empire played a part in the progress of the world, more
immediately necessary than that of Hellas. The latter’s Empire of Spirit was
in advance of its age. The world outside of the scattered outposts of Hellas
was too rude, too backward in the very necessaries of life, to accept its
message of beauty. Recognising this, the Hellenes called all other races and
nations barbarians and held aloof from them. The Romans, on the contrary,
absorbed the aliens, instilled into them the rudiments of their own
civilisation, while taking advantage of any good trait in the people
themselves, so that they helped them to rise out of themselves to a higher
plane of living. In a lawless world they became the great exponents of
order, the upbuilders and engineers of a system of organised society, and so
firmly did they lay the foundations and so strongly did they build that,
although subsequent hordes of barbarians overthrew the dominion of the
empire of Rome and laid waste many of the visible signs of her building,
the destroyers were gradually absorbed into her system and became its
continuers.
Therefore, when we consider the Romans specifically in relation to
architecture, we look back to them as tireless and prodigious builders,
constructors, and engineers, whose sense of beauty in architecture, as well
as their aspirations in all branches of higher culture, were derived from the
Hellenes. Their respect for the latter was such that so long as possible they
tried to treat them as an independent power, with whom they could pursue
the mutual advantages of commerce. Gradually, however, the tangle of
politics made absorption necessary, and after a series of invasions Hellas
herself became a province of the Roman Empire.
War, in those days, as for centuries after, involved the barbarous practice
of looting, and the Romans, with their shrewd instinct for acquiring what
they most needed for their own development, bore back home in increasing
quantity the treasures of architectural and sculptural art. Later, as the power
of Hellas dwindled, Rome became the centre to which Hellenic artists and
scholars flocked.
The conquest of Hellas and gradual absorption of a part of her culture
occupied the second century before the Christian era and the earlier years of
the first. By this time, however, Rome herself had become a prey to the
rivalries of political factions, beginning with the conspiracy of Sulla and
ending with the civil war that followed upon the assassination of Julius
Cæsar. The latter’s great-nephew, Octavianus, in conjunction with Marc
Antony, conquered Brutus and Cassius at Philippi in Macedonia and
Octavianus assumed authority over the West, while Antony established
himself as ruler in the East. But his infatuation for Cleopatra raised the
suspicion in Rome that he intended to marry her and make himself despot
of an Oriental empire with Alexandria as its capital. War was declared
against him as a national enemy and he was defeated at Actium, B.C. 31. The
authority of Octavianus was now supreme. Republicanism, as a practical
form of government, was dead. Conditions demanded one-man rule and
Octavianus, in B.C. 27, resigned his office as Triumvir and received from the
Senate the title of Augustus, which hitherto had been reserved for the gods.
During this period of struggle the Hellenic influence had been rapidly
growing. The sons of the ruling class had Greek tutors; many studied in the
schools of Athens and Rhodes, and Roman writers began to emulate the
Greek authors. Cæsar published his Commentaries on the Gallic War and on
the Civil War; Sallust wrote on the Conspiracy of Catiline and the
Jugurthine War and Cornelius Nepos compiled biographies of eminent men.
Cicero published under the name of “Philippics” the speeches which he
made against Antony in the Senate, as well as “Letters” to various friends
on the topics of the times, while Lucretius composed in verse a treatise on
the “Nature of the World” and Varro was the author of an encyclopædic
work relating to the history, geography, agriculture, law, literature,
philology, philosophy, and religion of the Romans. To Varro also had been
assigned by Julius Cæsar the collection of a public Library of Greek and
Roman writers.
The enthusiasm for literature was encouraged by Augustus and his
minister, Mycæenas, who saw in it a means of allaying the bitterness of
party strife. To this, the “Augustan” or “Golden Age,” as the writers called
it in flattery of their patron, belong Horace, Livy, and Virgil.
In an effort also to lead the people back to the honourable simplicity of
their forefathers, Augustus revived the ancient religious ceremonies and
restored the temples. He became chief pontiff and, being regarded as the
son of the deified Julius—in reality, his great-nephew—was treated almost
as a divinity in Rome and deified by the provincials who built temples in
his honour.
It was in the Augustan Age that Roman architecture virtually
commenced and its developments are associated with Imperial rule. Of the
period immediately preceding the new era Mommsen writes as follows:
“There was in the world as Cæsar found it much of the noble heritage of
past centuries and an infinite abundance of pomp and glory, but little spirit,
still less taste and least of all true delight in life. It was indeed, an old
world; and even the richly gifted patriotism of Cæsar could not make it
young again.”
Rome, the heart of the Empire, was corrupt. The ruling class coveted
pensions from the public exchequer to be spent on luxurious living; while
the mass of the populace clamoured for “panem et circenses”—feeding and
shows at the public charge. To satisfy their hunger both classes would have
taxed the provinces. But among the chief duties of the emperors were the
development of the resources of the provinces and the protection of the
frontiers; and, while the best of the emperors performed these functions
from high motives, even the worst found it politic to court the growing
power of the provinces. Thus, the main vitality of the empire was in its
extremities, and, although the emperors beautified Rome, they also
encouraged public works of utility and beauty in the provinces. To this end
a law was passed, permitting municipalities to receive bequests and gifts
from private individuals. In the liberality with which wealthy provincials
enriched their communities, Dr. Ferrero, the latest historian of Rome, has
seen a parallel to the munificent public gifts of American millionaires.
Accordingly, this great era of Roman building left its impress not only
upon Italy, but in Greece and northward as far as the Danube, in Asia
Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, along the whole Northern coast of Africa,
and in Spain, France, and Great Britain as far as the Firth of Forth. It was
distinguished not only by the magnitude of the operations but also by their
character.
Whereas in Egypt the architectural works had consisted of temples and
tombs; and in Hellas these had been supplemented by theatres and odeia;
while Assyria and Persia left their memorials in palaces, those of the Roman
Empire embraced all of these types and many more. The Romans applied
architecture to the practical needs of everyday life, and reinforced it with
engineering. They overlaid the Empire with fine trunk-roads, many of
which survive to-day; constructed sewers; spanned rivers with bridges;
conveyed water in countless miles of aqueducts; erected fora and market-
places, triumphal arches, temples, palaces, villas, baths, basilicas, theatres,
and hippodromes; providing alike for the necessities of life, the needs of
government, and the amusements and luxuries of living.
To accomplish so prodigious an amount of building the Romans
systematised the methods of construction in regard to both the labour and
the material. The labour was mainly of an unskilled kind, including soldiers
of the legions, slaves, and subjects liable through debt or other causes to
statute labour. This employment of unskilled labour was made possible by
the Roman habit of carrying the principle of repetition of motives to its
utmost limit, and also by the methods of construction which they invented.
This was the extended use of concrete. During the Republic the Romans
had followed the Greek method of building with large blocks of stone,
unconnected with mortar. Their practical spirit, however, urged them to
make a more economical use of materials and instead of composing the
walls entirely of blocks of stone or marble, they used these or bricks as a
facing, filling in the thickness of the wall with small fragments of stone
mixed with lime or mortar.
They had been led to this practice by the existence of pozzolana, a
volcanic product of clean, sandy earth, found in Rome and in greater
quantities at Pozzuoli on the Bay of Naples, which, when mixed with lime,
formed a concrete of exceptional hardness, strength, and durability.
Material, approximating the properties of pozzolana and lime, was
procurable in all parts of the Empire. Accordingly the use of this method of
construction gave a similarity to Roman building everywhere.
While the chief, and almost sole building material in Greece was marble,
the geological formation of Italy supplied stone as well as marble and
plentiful supplies of clay, which was converted into terra-cotta or bricks.
The bricks were of two shapes: either square, from 1 to 2 feet in size and 2
inches thick or triangular in plan and of about 1½ inches in thickness. The
latter were especially used for the facing of the walls, their pointed ends
being driven into the concrete to form the smooth surfaces, while at the
corners the points projected. In Rome itself the following materials were
available: travertine, a hard limestone from Tivoli; tufa, a volcanic
substance of which the hills of Rome are mainly composed; and peperino, a
stone of volcanic origin from Mount Albano.
PANTHEON, ROME
P. 171
SECTION OF PANTHEON
COLOSSEUM, ROME
P. 174
SECTION OF COLOSSEUM
Showing the System of Vaulting and Piers
BASILICA OF CONSTANTINE
Showing the Barrel-Vaulted Ceilings. P. 178
CHAPTER IV
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
The Romans enlarged the scope of architecture in the direction of the art of
the engineer. While Hellenic architecture had been an expression of the
faculties of reasoning and of taste, co-operating in a singular harmony,
Roman architecture was the product of reasoning stimulated by a practical
sense and an extraordinary energy and audacity. In place of excessive
refinement and sense of proportion, it is distinguished by variety, vastness
of scale and exuberance of decorative detail. While every part of a Greek
temple was constructional, having its distinct function in contributing to the
stability as well as adornment of the whole structure, the Romans, as we
have noted, had a uniform system of building in which they applied the
structural details of the Greeks, very largely in the way of added
embellishment.
Their aptitude for borrowing and adapting is apparent in their orders of
columns and entablatures.
Roman Orders.—In the first place, they borrowed from the Etruscans
the so-called Tuscan order. This had a rudimentary Doric form; the column
being seven diameters in height; the shaft unfluted and tapering toward the
capital, while the entablature was simpler, having no triglyphs, mutules, or
guttæ.
In borrowing from the Hellenes, the Romans made little use of the Doric
order. When it is used, as in the form of engaged columns in the Theatre of
Marcellus, the height of the columns was increased in proportion to their
diameters; the shafts were either smooth or channelled with semicircular,
instead of the subtler, elliptic flutings, separated by narrow fillets; a base
was added and modifications were made in the details of the capital. The
architrave did not overhang the face of the column and was reduced in
height; the triglyphs were used in the frieze only over the centre of the
columns, even at the angles, while the cornice was lighter, with dentils
sometimes taking the place of mutules. The Doric, in fact, did not appeal to
the Roman taste for rich decoration, and, in so far as it was used, was
degraded in style.
The same is true of the Roman adaptation of the Ionic order. Simpler and
more commonplace curves replace the extreme refinement of the volutes
and the fillet of the latter was carried invariably across the top of the
echinus or cushion, while the ornamentation of the entablature was more
profuse. The best use of this order is found in the upper story of the
Theatre of Marcellus; the worst, on the eight remaining columns of the
Temple of Saturn in the Forum Romanum.
The Corinthian order, of which no type sufficiently definite to constitute
an order had been evolved by the Greeks, was fully worked out by the
Romans, with the assistance of Greek artists, and became the favourite
expression of their taste for richness. The shaft was either smooth, as in the
early example of the Pantheon (B.C. 27), or fluted as in the great temple of
Castor and Pollux; the heights in these two cases being respectively 9¾ and
10 diameters. A special base was designed, consisting of tori, scotia, and
fillets, resting on a square plinth.
The inverted bell of the capital was surrounded by an upper and lower
row of acanthus leaves, which differ from the Hellenic forms in being
blunter at the tips. Above the rows of leaves projected the stalks, or
“caulicolæ,” which terminated in spirals, both in the centre of each face and
at the angles of the abacus. The four sides of the latter are concave and
decorated in the centre with a rosette. In the more sumptuous examples
further enrichment of ornament was added to the capital, while the capitals
of the Temple of Castor and Pollux present a unique instance of the
central spirals being interlaced.
The Corinthian architrave in Hellenic usage consisted, it will be
remembered, of three bands, as in the Ionic order. The Romans frequently
embellished the middle one with a version of the anthemion motive. They
also added enrichments to the bed mould beneath the frieze. The latter was
frequently carved with acanthus scrolls, grotesque figures, and ox-skulls,
and garlands. The cornice was also enriched with carved ornament, of
which the most characteristic were modillions or brackets, which appear to
support the cornice.
The Composite order was an invention of the Romans and possibly
suggested by the capitals of the Erechtheion in Athens, where the Ionic
spirals appear above a necking carved with anthemion ornament. The
capital of the Composite order consisted in the upper part of Ionic spirals,
often richly decorated with foliage, and in the lower of two rows of
acanthus leaves, as in the Corinthian order, which was followed also in the
other details of the column and entablature.
The mouldings in Hellenic architecture are distinguished by the
refinement of the contours, in Roman by the richness of carved ornament.
The anta, which appears in Greek temples at the corners of the cella
walls was developed by the Romans into the pilaster. This was a square
pier, projecting about one-sixth of its width from the wall; used either to
divide up and decorate the wall surfaces, or to serve as a “respond” to a
column. It was frequently fluted and corresponded with the column in its
details.
Arch-Vaulting.—The Romans did not invent the arch, but generalised
its use and elaborated it into vaulting, thus introducing into architecture an
element of construction capable of endless application and lending itself not
only to utility but also to variety and magnificence. In doing so they were
assisted by their discovery of the use of concrete. By means of supports and
sheathings of rough timber, temporarily erected, they were able to cast their
arches or vaultings in any form and practically of any size. The concrete
“set” quickly and the arch or vaulting thus became a solid mass, which
exerted but little thrust and covered the space with the rigidity of a lid or
cup.
Such method of construction lessened the tendency of the arch or
vaulting to exert a lateral strain or thrust which occurs when the arch is
composed of voussoirs or, similarly, separate blocks of stone or brick are