ancient civ - temples
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Temple of portunus is next to which river
River tiber
What are the types of columns (5)
Tuscan ionic Doric Corinthian composite
Which forum is temple of portunus in
Forum boarium
What kind of column is the temple of portunus
Ionic
What does portunus do
God of ports
Temple of Hercules shape
Circle
Temple of portunus shape
Rectangle
What kind of columns does temple of Hercules have
Corinthian
Is Hercules a god
No he is a hero
Why was the ara pacis built
To celebrate AUGUSTUS victories in Spain and Gaul
who commissioned for the ara pacis to be built
The senate
What is the political significance of the ara pacis
Shows political power and security for Augusts family
What is the religious significance of the ara pacis
You can worship gods therw to keep the pax deorum
Describe the building ara pacis (2 things )
Rectangle
Walls are engraved -frieze
What was the ara pacis used for
Sacrifices
What was on the north frieze of the ara pacis(2)
Senators and priests
What was on the south frieze of the ara pacis
Augusts family
What was on the east frieze of the ara pacis(3)
Pax / tellus and Roma
What is on the west frieze of the ara pacis (7)
Aeneas/numa and Romulus and Remus and god of mars and wolf and Shepard
Who built the pantheon
Marcus Agrippa when consul for the third time
When was the pantheon finished
During emperor hadriens reign - 126-138 BC
What is the shape of the pantheon
Rectangle with ROTUNDA(circle) for the main body
What is the dome of the pantheon made from
Concrete
What is the function of the pantheon
Temple for all gods
What is in the pantheon
Statues of gods and emperors
How is the pantheon decorated
With geometric marble patterns
strange features of the pantheon (3)
ROTUNDA
big monolithic columns from Egypt
Oculus
What does the temple of vesta look like
round
What is in the temple of vesta(3)
No cult statue
An everlasting fire
Sacred objects
strange features of the temple of vesta
Oculus
Round
No statue
Who is vesta?
God of fire (and family )