CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Antoninus Pius, Esquiline Hill, Capitoline Hill
4 Dec 2013
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Triumph refers to procession held to honour a victorious returning general following his campaign. The tradition developed from the late republican period and continues across the. Triumphal rituals: party gathered on campus martius outside sacred boundary of the city, where procession set off a prescribed route, let through the triumphal. Gate through the forum, to the capitoline hill: procession of the spoils. Animals were barbequed and divided through to the citizens. Captives in chains (cf. experience in arena: procession of the victorious general. Leading officers and roman citizens behind: parading soldiers. Procession culminated under temporary arch constructed in roman forum; crossing through the arch was a sign of victory which eventually stone/concrete arches develop as a permanent architectural type = 3 bays, sculpture in relief, inscription in attic story. Dedicated after ad 81 by domitian, successor of titus. Commemorates victories in jewish war ad 70.
