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The Coliseum
Roman Baths
Roman Temples
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MATERIALS:
One of the things the Romans are most famous for is their architecture.
The Romans brought a lot of new ideas to architecture, of which the
three most important are the arch, the baked brick, and the use
of cement and concrete. Around 700 BC the Etruscans learned
West Asian ideas about architecture, and they taught these ideas to the
Romans. There aren’t much Etruscan architecture left, but a lot of
their underground tombs do survive, and some traces
of their temples.
The concrete the Roman builders and architects used.
COLISEUM:
Perhaps the greatest of all amphitheatres, is the Coliseum,
a massive Ancient Roman structure. It was designed to serve
as a location for bloodshed shows. The Ancient Roman
community would travel to the enormous amphitheatre to be
spectators of battles between gladiators, combats
between men and vicious animals, and mock naval battles.
Different photos of the Coliseum.
The inside of the Coliseum where the Romans watched
Gladiatorial Games.
ROMAN BATHS:
Men and women enjoyed coming to the baths
not only to get clean but to meet with friends,
exercise, or read at the library. The baths had hot
and cold pools, towels, steam rooms, saunas,
exercise rooms, and hair cutting salons.
They had reading rooms and libraries, as among
the freeborn, who had the right to frequent baths,
the majority could read. Generally, Romans
Would first go to the unctuarium where they
had oil rubbed onto their skin and would then
exercise in one of the exercise yards. From here
they would move to the tepidarium or warm room
where they would lie around chatting with
their friends.
Ancient Roman baths.
The Roman Baths are a historical place of interest in the English
city of Bath. They are a very well preserved Roman site
of public bathing, and have become a major tourist attraction.
ROMAN TEMPLES:
Like the Egyptians, the West Asians,
the Carthaginians, the Greeks and the
Etruscans before them, the Romans
built many temples for their gods. One
of the first buildings we know of in Rome
is the Capitoline Temple, which was
built on top of the Capitoline Hill under
the kings of Rome. It was a temple for
three gods, Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.
But that temple has been completely
destroyed, and only little bits of the
foundations are left today.
These two pictures are of the same Republican period victory temple in Rome.
The Temple of Jupiter covered a surface of approximately 88 m out of 48 m,
what made the largest Roman temple. It dominates the Great court above 7,5 m
and the gardens around above 13 m. Today, there remain only six columns of
the southern peristyle (a seism had cut down three of them in 1759). They are
20 m high and 2,2 m diameter.
Addresses we used:
www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/romarch.htm
www.eliki.com/ancient/civilizations/roman/
www.crystalinks.com/romebuildings.html
This project was made by
Octavio Martinez, Miguel Zhang Dou, Martin De Marco, Julia Curto