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The Creation of an Icon: The Colosseum and Contemporary Architecture in Rome

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This lecture examines Flavian architecture in Rome, focusing on the Colosseum, Claudianum, Forum Pacis, and Baths of Titus. It connects their technical and aesthetic features to the dynasty’s use of architecture as public policy.

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- Chapter 1. The Year 68-69 and The Founding of the Flavian Dynasty
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- Chapter 2. The Claudianum or The Temple of Divine Claudius
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- Chapter 3. The Colosseum: Icon of Rome
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- Chapter 4. The Colosseum as a Post-Antique Quarry
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- Chapter 5. The Forum or Templum Pacis
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- Chapter 6. The Imperial Baths of Titus
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    Jeff Watson @jeff210362
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    an outstanding lecture on the genesis of Flavian architecture in Rome

    The approach in informative and leans heavily on previous styles from the architecture of Augustus , Theatre of Marcellus , Claudius Temple of Divine Claudius , and Nero , the Domus Aurea .

    Vespasian , Titus and Domitian used architecture as very much a propaganda exercise to give back to the Roman people what Nero had taken .

    I would not hesitate to recommend this lecture to anyone with a love of Roman History
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