CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture 30: Classics Lecture 30
13 May 2016
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Every part of the mediterranean coast was controlled by the romans. The roman empire had a lot of divinity. There is indigenous culture and then another layer of roman culture. Remains show combination of longstanding green culture with roman overlay. Every roman province had a governor, and a burocracy. They had bilingual officials, so they could relate to places they took over. The idea was that many people wanted to learn latin when they were controlled because they wanted to relate to the elite romans. Columns along the side of the agora street. Colonnaded streets a feature of urbanism in roman asia minor. Very typical in any kind of public building in asia minor. In the second century and the third, when there"s a lot of building we get the experiments of architecture. There an an ornamental style of decoration and a inscription the hadrian. Scaenographic architecture, characteristic of roman asia minor. (use of facades to carve out public space)
