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Ancient Rome for kids
Paddy McCabe
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Vatican Hill, the site of the Circus of Nero
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You Tube video showing Ancient Rome in 3-d via Google Earth
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Circus Maximus, the stadium could hold 250,000 people compare that with the largest stadiums today...
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The Pantheon today
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St. Peter meets Christ on the Appian Way, returns to Rome to face certain death on Vatican Hill, the rest is, as they say, history...
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The sorry sight that is Circus Maximus today, where once a quarter of a million roared on their favourite charioteers weeds now grow.
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The Imperial Roman Forum
The enduring image of Ancient Rome, lying to the side of the Colosseum and literally allowing you to walk in the footsteps of the great, the glorious, the greedy, the grubby and the grotesque of Rome.
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BBC Series trailer and enough to whet the appetite of the curious...
Go on find out more about life on the streets and in the Palaces of Rome...
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The Theatre of Pompey was completed in seven years, starting from 55 BC, and was dedicated early in 52 BC. It was one of the first permanent theatres in Rome.
The senate would often use this building along with a number of temples and halls that satisfied the requirements for their formal meetings.
This is infamous as the place of Julius Caesar's murder.
BELOW IS SUETONIUS' DESCRIPTION OF JULIUS CAESAR'S ASSASSINATION.
http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar_t09.html
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British Museum, Ancient Rome site, go searching around here and find out lots more about the Romans
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The Baths of Caracalla still used today by Teatro Dell' Opera to host Summer spectaculars.
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Iconic, the Falvian Amphitheatre was completed around A.D. 80
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The Baths of Caracalla were built south of the Caelian Hill, which was the most south-easterly of the seven hills of Rome.
During the Republic, the Caelian was densely populated.
After a fire in A.D. 27, the Caelian became home to Rome's wealthy.
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Quirinal Hill, the Top of Trajan's Column still to be seen today in his forum measures 128 feet high. Its purpose was to show the height of the Quirinal that was cleared to make way for the Imperial Forum.
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The Capitoline Hill, possibly the most famous and Sacred of the Roman Hills.
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/rome-capitoline-museums
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The Colosseum today
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Mary Beard's BBC series, "Meet the Romans." This series was broadcast after the watershed in the U.K.
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The view from Knights of Malta H.Q. on Aventine Hill looking out to St. Peter's Basilica.
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The Viminal was always the least important of the hills of the city, and contained few monuments, and traffic for the most part passed on eitherp582side of it.
The Viminal seems almost flattened under the Ministry of the Interior. The ancient Baths of Diocletian (c. 298–306) are northeast of the Viminal.
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The Southernmost of the 7 Ancient Hills of Rome.
A popular view is from the keyhole at no.3 of the square ofthe Knights of Malta which looks across the gardens of the Knights of Malta andperfectly frames a view of St. Peter's.
Mount Testaccio is to the south. It is 36m high and was created between 140BC and 250AC out of broken amphorae pieces, quite literally walking on Ancient Rome.
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Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time, built it. Roman contradiction in all its beauty, simple, understated but in your face...
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The Appian Way
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The Esquiline was the largest of the 7 hills of Rome. Its claim to fame comes from the Roman emperor Nero who built his domus aurea 'golden house' upon it. Before the Empire, the eastern end of the Esquiline was used for dumping refuse and the puticuli (burial pits) of the poor. For health reasons, Augustus, the first Roman emperor, had the burial pits covered over with soil to create a park called the 'Gardens of Maecenas'. .
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Aventine Hill view today
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The Baths of Diocletian, another smart Imperial move to appeal to the masses. This was one way to ensure continued support amongst" the great washed" of Rome.
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Mythology claims this to be the Hill that started the Roman people as it is here that Romulus and Remus were raised by the she-wolf before being found by Faustulusand his wife Acca Larentia. It was on the Palatine that Romulus founded Rome.
http://www.rome-tour.co.uk/palatine_hill.htm
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BBC Ancient Rome site, simply brilliant for kids...
Lots of information, games & external links to other great sites.
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