Circus Maximus
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From the Telegraph … skipping a bit: Now, to mark the two millennia since his death in 14AD, a successful exhibition has been staged in Rome and Paris, while on Rome’s Palatine Hill newly restored rooms at Augustus’ house and elaborate frescoes in a dining area will go on display for the first time. But…
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As always, not sure how long this one will stay up: Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome (IMDB) This documentary is not bad/pretty good and looks at the Circus Maximus, Trajan’s Forum and Market, Aqueducts, the Baths of Caracalla, Roman Roads, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum. When it is just talking about the buildings and their…
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ante diem x kalendas septembres Vulcanalia — a festival in honour of Vulcan, which included games in the Circus Maximus rites in honour of Maia and the Nymphs rites in honour of Ops Opifera and Hora Quirini 93 A.D. — death of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, and subject of the latter’s…
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Image via Wikipedia I think this will be the last one from the Toledo series that I post today … one could kill a lot of time with these: The Circus Maximus is generally considered a place of spectacle where emperors indulged an impotent public with displays of power and largess to ensure public complacency.…
rogue classicism 