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FlashCards por Ella Britten-Jones, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Ella Britten-Jones
aproximadamente 7 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| Cloaca Maxima What is it? | What is it? → One of the worlds earliest sewer systems → Constructed in order to drain local marshes and remove the waste from Rome into the Tiber river → Originally an open-air canal (big enough to fit hay wagon – Strabo) before being covered up |
| What is the purpose of the Cloaca Maxima? | Purpose → Drain marshy land → Religious significance – Cloacina → Shows Roman power as they managed to build it despite physical obstacles → Acted as a sewer system for Roman population – still used today. |
| What is the Roman Forum? | What is it? → public meeting place → Became centre of Rome and of public life → Located in small valley between Palatine Hills → Its placement in the central part of the city dates back to the time of the Tarquin kings → Cloaca Maxima was built to provide proper drainage of the marshy land between the hills → When the land was properly drained and dry, this area naturally became a central gathering location for the Etruscan inhabitants. → When the Roman Republic came to be in 509 B.C., this area retained its public use |
| What is the purpose of the Roman Forum? | Purpose → public meeting place → Functioned as important place for o Politics o Economics o Administrates o Religious Festivals/ functions → During Republic was where processions and elections took place, and eventually where the Roman Senate gathered |
| What is the Campus Martius? | What is it? → 250 hectares of low lying plains enclosed by bend in Tiber river → Originally used primarily as a military exercise ground before being drained (1st century BCE) and became covered with large public buildings – baths, amphitheatre, theatres, gymnasium, crematorium and many temples. → Villa Publica, Circus Flaminius, and Pompeys theatre |
| What is the purpose of the Campus Martius? | Purpose → public meeting place → Outside Pomerium o Fighting allowed o Foreign ambassadors o Foreign cults + temples → Pasturing sheep and agriculture before being built up → Starting point for triumphs + religious festivals |
| What is the Via Sacra? | What is it? → Main street of ancient Rome – ran through the Forum → leads form the top of the Capitoline Hill through religious sites of the Forum before reaching the Colosseum |
| What is the purpose of the Via Sacra? | Purpose → Continually filled with religious festivals → Filled with: o Triumphs of generals o Business o Justice o Religion o Social |
| What is the form of the Basilica Aemila? | Form → 55-34 BCE → Civil Basilica → 100 metres long 30 metres wide – rows of African marbled columns |
| What is the function of the Basilica Aemilia? | Function → Basilicas were large roofed halls erected for o transacting business o disposing of legal matters → advertised grandeur of Rome → contained an apse (arch) in which a magistrate sat → on its 200th anniversary Pliny claimed it was one of the most beautiful buildings in Rome |
| THE CITY OF ROME Geographical Setting and influences on development of city: | → Originally marshy land that was prone to flooding and air borne/ mosquito borne diseases like malaria → Cloaca Maxima essentially drained the land and the people were able to build on it → Very sophisticated city plan → Romans built upwards due to large population → Made artificial harbour that saved Rome from flooding → Built in between seven hills → Tiber river was good for navigation and trade but avoided being too close to coast to avoid attack → Fertile plains and rivers → Commanded both banks of Tiber → Romans looked back on greatness and attributed success to different factors – religion/ gods and men chose city |
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