ROMAN

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ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
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MENU
The Material
The Coliseum
Roman Baths
Roman Temples
THE END
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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 arent 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.
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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.
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The inside of the Coliseum where the Romans
watched Gladiatorial Games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THE END
Addresses we used www.historyforkids.org/learn/ro
mans/architecture/romarch.htm www.eliki.com/ancien
t/civilizations/roman/ www.crystalinks.com/romebui
ldings.html
This project was made by Octavio Martinez,
Miguel Zhang Dou, Martin De Marco, Julia Curto