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BASILICA AEMILIA Year 11 Ancient History class MITCHELL CRUZ! Adrian Martin, Matt Moore Also known as the Basilica Fulvia

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BASILICA AEMILIA

Year 11 Ancient History class MITCHELL CRUZ! Adrian Martin, Matt

Moore

Also known as the Basilica Fulvia

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. At the end of the Punic War Rome came into closer contact with the Hellenistic world of Greece, and the increase in urban population and wealth was reflected in the construction of numerous basilicas

HISTORY

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The Basilica Aemilia was built in 179 BC. The building consisted of two floors. Next to the forum there was a shopping-arcade. The ground was made of marble with lots of colors. The roof was covered by bronze tiles. Partly due to the basilica, the Roman Forum became a meeting place surrounded by wondrous buildings.

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Innovation in Rome

The use of concrete also changed the way many building facades were designed. Weight bearing columns were often replaced with decorative columns and pilasters since the concrete itself carried the building weight.

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The inner of the basilca (± 70 x 29 m) was treated as a great central nave surrounded on all four sides by aisles and with a second, narrow aisle along the north side. The aisles had certainly a second storey with columns of a smaller scale.

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The Basilica Aemilia’s main purpose in the RomanForum was to hold public meetings, as it was one of theBiggest buildings in the Roman Forum.

The Basilica Aemilia’s Second purpose was toHave Markets just on the outdoor areas of theBasilica which was on the Northern side.

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• Basilica

Aemilia

Today

After the Basilica Aemilia was later built into a Roman Catholic Church

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MODERN DAY BASILICA

Held the same purpose as it had the role of a gathering and had the same architectural features

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                                          Resources                    http://cvrlab.org/forum/main.html excellent interactive map showing the  forum,

changing over time                   www.jmiller.demon.co.uk maps of the Roman Empire                  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html   good general site with images

and contentwww.unicaen.fr/rome/index.php?langue=anglais- excellent geograhical tour of ancient Rome

with clickable links and pictures.www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/dglectures/augustus/campmart- slide show on campusmartiuswww.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1274/ancient-city-by-type.html- very clear clickable map,

colour codedwww.italybyclick.com/vr/index.html- Modern day virtual tour of ancient sites with clickable

pictureswww.historylink101.com/ancient_rome_maps.htm- Very navigable site with good links on

Circus Maximus, Roman forum, Aquaducts and Building Techniqueswww.members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientRome.html- Table of contents with clickable links.

Covers a wide variety of aspects but very valuable for maps of Rome at various stages of its development

http://classics.furman.edu/%7erprior/courses/RA/RAU2.html- A University website, probably the most valuable for this topic. A special section on Rome of the Republic it has clickable pictures of almost every major building.

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~arch343/lecture4.html- Lecture by Dr Richard Ingersoll from Rice University on Urban Planning in Rome.

http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/4_Forum_Romanum.html -good clickable photos, content and links

www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/circus.html- excellent site on Circus Maximus, pictures and content