CLST 341 Lecture 19: Lecture Two Week 11
23 Nov 2017
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The maison caree is one of the most beautiful but the title goes to the pantheon, originally built by agrippa but added to/rebuilt by. He left the old inscription commemorating agrippa (consul three times) on the pantheon. The rotunda itself is as wide as it"s tall, 43 meters. Kingston"s domes are city hall, st. george"s cathedral, and. People took from the colosseum until it was sanctified. Pantheon is the church of st. mary and the martyrs. Perhaps to have a new resting place for emperors, hadrian built a new mausoleum which became the burial site for emperors until. It is today called castel sant" angelo (because of the angel on top) or the vatican fortress. It was the largest and tallest building in rome when it was built. Hadrian"s relationship with plotina and with matidia (trajan"s niece), his mother-in-law, was close, though with vibia sabina, not so much.
