Roman Arch 2

Name, Date, Location, Significance

• Roman Forum

• Rome

• 500 BCE

• between palatine and capitoline hills

• held public meetings, law courts, and gladiatorial combats

• held shops and markets

• most significant forum

• religious ceremonies

Name, Location, Date, Significance

• Forum of Augustus

• Rome

• 1st c. BCE

• could only be accessed through Caesar’s forum which connected the family

• large colonnaded square with a temple at the far end

• dedicated to Mars the Avenger in reference to Augustus’ victories over the murderers of Caesar

• porticoes include 2 wide semicircles where there are marble statues

  • portray characters belonging to mythical past

Exedra (sg)

outdoor semicircular seat with a solid back

opus incertum

irregular wall building/facing technique

opus reticulatum

wall building/facing technique in the shape of a diamond

opus caementicium

Term both used for wattle work and walls of half-timer construction, filled in with stones and/or straw and plastered with mortar

opus testaceum

Brick faced masonry - kiln-backed bricks; the dominant technique throughout the imperial period.

ashlar masonry

• stones are cut and worked so they have the same shape, size, and surface texture

• laid in horizontal layers and fit together with very little mortar

brick

• used in the late 1st century

name, date, location, significance

• castellum aquarum

• pompeii

• 1st c. AD

• water take that helped to distribute water

  • it was the endpoint of an aqueduct

aqueducts

A form of infrastructure that moves water across cities that is raised and covered so that the water is not contaminated. It is also at a small slant so that the water can flow.

cavea

seating in a theater

Roman roads

connected all of Italy . If you had to get to the east, you had to go back to Rome and then back out to the east because the terrane was not good for roads

Roman milestones

• tells you how far you are from a certain area

• honor to the emperor and to the person who created the person who created them

• helpful to those who can read but most people could not read

amphora

types of container with a pointed bottom that would hold wine, olive oil, and grain for transportation

name, date, location, significance

• theater of pompey/teatro pompi

• Rome

• Mid 1st. c. BCE

• built from concrete

• where caesar got killed

• gathering place for the senate

• similar layout of late Republican Sactuaries

• had arches all around it

• the seating was supported by arches and walls

• Pompi was caesar’s enemy

• temple of Venus at the back

name, date, significance

• theater of marcellus

• rome

• late 1st c. BCE

• built by Caesar and completed by Augustus

• cultural and social gatherings

• roman theaters

• arches

Name, Date, Location, Significance

• Mausoleum of Augustus

• Rome

• built on the banks of the river

• round concrete drum that hed the ash urns with a soil mound and a rotunda with a bronze statue on top

• very normal to have deification and glorification in the afterlife

  • creates propoganda even in death

name, date, location, significance

• ara pacis

• rome

• late 1st c. BCE - Early 1st c. CE

name, date, location, significance

• sanctuary of hercules victor

• tibur

• 1st c. BCE

• religious and commercial complex

• theater, temple, and market

• spot for travelers

name, date, location, significance

• Praeneste. Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia.

• Rome

• Late 2nd – Early 1st c. BCE.

• Republican Sanctuary

• shows what you can do with concrete

  • things last, unlike when you only use mud and wood

  • a lot cheaper to make things with concrete

  • terrreces and arches

• temple at the top

name, date, location, significance

• sanctuary of juno

• gabii

• late 2nd c. BCE

name, date, location, significance

• temple of hercules

• cori

• late 2nd c. BCE