Urbs Roma

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Urbs Roma The city at the height of the Empire
(circa 180 AD)
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How did Rome look at its beginning in 753 BC?
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As Rome grew, it came into heavy contact with the
Etruscans to the North. This influenced the look
of their architecture.
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Compare a Greek temple
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As Rome grew during the Monarchy so did the city.
By the end of the Regal Period (around 510 BC)
the city looked something like this
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By the end of the 4th century (300 BC), Rome had
become more cosmopolitan but it still had a small
town look to it.
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As Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean, the
wealth and cultural influences (especially from
Greece) changed the look of the city.
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By the time of Julius Caesar, there was a feeling
that the city was an embarrassment. It did not
match the Empire that it controlled. Caesar
sought to change that.
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Caesar went on a huge building spree in order to
correct the problem. He built
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Julius Caesar also wanted to change to course of
the Tiber to enlarge the Campus Martius. JC,
basically, wanted to change the city of Rome
completely. However, he was murdered and his
heir Augustus was the one who assumed this role.
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Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of
bricks and left it a city of marble. Indeed,
Augustus a subsequent emperors adorned the city
with some of its most famous buildings.
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And essentially that is how Rome went from this
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To this
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