CLST 420 Lecture 3: Lecture3

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 420
• Professor: Colivicci

Document Summary

Are changes that happened in italy between 4th and 1st c. a direct consequence of. Urbanization, cities with regular plan (grid pattern), monumental public buildings (forum square, temples on tall podium, basilicae, theatres and amphitheatres, bathhouses aqueducts) Well-organized agricultural countryside, sometimes with regular divisions of land, populated by small rural sites (farms) in republican period and then villas in imperial period: as you can see, romans were highly rational and organized. Plan of latin colony of cosa in etruria. Grid pattern with streets intersecting at 90 degree angles. A forum, basilica etc: all the public buildings were on one side of the forum. A very typical roman urban plan of early days. Over time, cities grew in size and public buildings were still centred around the forum and then we see amphitheatres and all the grandeur come in. Capitolium (temple of jupiter) of roman colony of luna, nw italy.