CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Unending, Spolia, Damnatio Memoriae
9 Dec 2017
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Interior walls depict a bountiful harvest: bloom or harvest all year and in all four seasons, bounty and peace he brough would last throughout the entire year and was endless. Important influence of both these nations: looks old fashioned, parthenon athens, greece, temple to athena parthenos (athena the virgin, pantheon roman. Inscription: m. agrippa l. f. con finish this i didn"t get it all, important that hadrian gave all the credit to the original builder who was agrippa and gave none of it to himself. Arches: arches are very effective at holding up large buildings, the romans did not invent the arch (it was used by greeks and etruscans) but the. Increasingly used in the 3rd century (late empire), but practice fates back at least to the early imperial period. Spolia and the arch of constantine: constantine: emperor during the late empire, re-unified empire, read this not done slide.
