Rome Is Burning (Turning Points in Ancient History) by Anthony A. Barrett

Author:Anthony A. Barrett [Barrett, Anthony A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780691172316
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Nero acquired land desolated by the fire to build a spectacular palace with extensive parkland, set around a lake, in the very heart of the city. A splendid arcaded avenue led east from the forum up to the large vestibule built on a level platform on the Velia saddle to house the colossus, a huge statue possibly designed originally with the features of Nero, and from there to the large ornamental lake. A fountain was constructed on the podium of the still uncompleted Temple of Claudius on the Caelian, almost certainly providing water for the lake below. On the edge of the Oppian section of the Esquiline Hill, on the north side of the Colosseum valley, a huge complex was built, and on the other, southern, side, the Golden House no doubt incorporated buildings erected or refurbished on the Palatine. Thus, the House would have offered splendid vistas from all three eminences, the Caelian, Esquiline, and Palatine. If all of this is indeed to be deemed a single concept, one unitary domus, it was a domus of amazing complexity, probably not emulated until many decades later when Hadrian constructed his extravagant villa complex at Tibur (Tivoli) some twenty miles north east of Rome.

6.2. Reconstruction of the Golden House, looking west. R. Carlani.

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