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Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the New Basilica. Construction of the New Basilica began under the emperor Maxentius in the year 308 but was completed by emperor Constantine in…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina is easily recognized by the six columns that dominate its front –…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the Temple of Divus Romulus. The Temple of Divus Romulus is recognizable as a tall round building on the North side of the Via…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the Temple of Vesta. The Temple of Vesta was integrated into the adjacent House and Sanctuary of the Vestal Virgins. The only remains of…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the Temple of Roma and Venus. The Temple of Roma and Venus was designed and commissioned by the Emperor Hadrian. Building started in the…
Transcript: This monument celebrates processional triumph given to Titus following his successful campaign in Judaea. To understand more specifically when and why the arch was built we need to dig into a little of his and his family’s history. Titus was the son of Emperor Vespasian and his younger brother was Domitian. Together these three…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. My name is Daron Green. This intro and the next 15 podcast episodes are all relatively short – typically 5-10 minutes long with each focused on a specific building or area in the Roman Forum – note that there is an interactive google map…
Transcript: The Baths of Caracalla occupy a truly huge site to the south of the city. They were the eighth to be built of the eleven documented during the fourth century. The first of these came about when, in the year 12, Agrippa bequeathed his personal baths to the people of Rome, giving them their…
Transcript: We will start our tour at the south end of the Piazza. It’s difficult to imagine it now, but the Piazza Navona we see today sits on the footprint of what was a major sporting stadium that accommodated roughly 30,000 spectators. Known it its day as the Circus Agonalis it was commissioned by Emperor…
Transcript: The arch was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate emperor Constantine’s victory over emperor Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge which had taken place on October 28 in the year 312. The inscription shown above the central arch on both sides is somewhat torturous to translate literally but it can be interpreted…