Buildings

Question 1

We live in a city…shored up with gimcrack stays and props

Answer 1

Juvenal Satire 3

Question 2

the building is poised like a house of cards

Answer 2

Juvenal, Satire 3

Question 3

Fires and midnight panics are…common events

Answer 3

Juvenal, Satire 3

Question 4

Nero “brazenly set fire to the city”

Answer 4

Suetonius Nero

Dio and Pliny agree. Tacitus is only source not to.

Question 5

“I found Rome built of bricks; I leave it clothed in marble.”

Answer 5

Suetonius, Augustus 28

Question 6

“I restored eighty-two temples of the gods”

Answer 6

RGDA 20

After 33 BC, only Aug and family built temples in Rome

Question 7

“was responsible for no magnificent public works”

Answer 7

(Suetonius, Tiberius 47)

Question 8

Nero’s reforms after the great fire (64 AD)

Answer 8

Recorded by Tacitus in Annals Book 15
Reforms the water supply, increasing it’s quantity, reduces it’s use by rich citizens.
He had firefighting porches and equipment put on the outside of private housing
New buildings had to include fireproof stone,
Decreed that they had to be detached (to prevent the spread of fire).
Further limit to the height of the buildings
Tacitus: “these measures which were made for utilitarian purposes also contributed to the beauty of the new city.” (Annals Book 15)

Question 9

Date of Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)

Answer 9

Started by Vespasian in 70 AD. Opened by Titus in 80 AD

Question 10

Augustus’ Buildings

Answer 10

Forum Augustum+Temple
Mausoleum
Temple of Apollo
Theatre of Marcellus
Ara Pacis

Question 11

Claudius’ Buildings

Answer 11

Ostia
Aqua Claudia
Aqua Anio Novus

Question 12

3 Juvenal 3 Sources on Buildings

Answer 12

the building is poised like a house of cards
Fires and midnight panics are…common events
We live in a city…shored up with gimcrack stays and props

Question 13

“to reduce the danger of collapse [Augustus] placed restrictions on the height o all new buildings”

Answer 13

Strabo, Geography Book 5

Question 14

Opus Craticum

Answer 14

Surviving example of Roman house at HERCULANEUM
Mainly made of wood, easy to burn.
If the wood burned the house would collapse

Question 15

Insula

Answer 15

Only remaining archaeological source of tenement buildings in Rome.
Made only of stone, rooms cramped, little natural light, at least six stories high.
However, very unusual, and most time spent in public buildings

Question 16

“For six days and seven nights destruction raged”

Answer 16

Suetonius, Nero 38

Question 17

Praetorian camp

Answer 17

Just outside city limits
Useless design militarily
Designed to intimidate.

Question 18

Restoration of Captol

Answer 18

Vesp. personally invoked

Temple of Jupiter restored exactly, with slight height addition.

Question 19

Tacitus Annals Book 15

Answer 19

Nero’s reforms

Question 20

Juvenal vs Lucilius

Answer 20

Lucillius wrote 2nd century BC
Juvenal writes under Domitian
Some 200 years separated
But the portrayal is the same
Juvenal similar to Horace too
Is this a satirist convention or is it actually what happened?