 The hull of one of the two ships recovered from Lake Nemi. The Nemi Ships were huge and exceedingly luxurious ships built by the Roman emperor Caligula in the first century CE at Lake Nemi. One of the ships was designed as a temple that was dedicated to Diana (the Roman equivalent of Artemis), the larger ship however was essentially an elaborate floating palace, which counted marble and heated, mosaic floors and plumbing such as baths among its amenities, the sole role of which was to satisfy Caligula's increasingly self-indulgent behavior. It has been stated that the emperor was influenced by the lavish lifestyles of the Hellenistic rulers of Syracuse and Ptolemaic Egypt. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of deep water navigation. ...
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41 AD), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from AD 37 to AD 41. ...
Lake Nemi is a small circular volcanic lake in the Lazio region of Italy a few miles south of Rome, taking its name from Nemi, the largest town in the area, that overlooks it from a height. ...
The Diana of Versailles In Roman mythology, Diana was the virgin goddess of the hunt, in literature the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult she was thought to be the god of horror and fear. ...
The Diana of Versailles, a Roman copy of a sculpture by Leochares (Louvre Museum) Artemis (Greek: nominative , genitive ) in Greek mythology the daughter of Zeus and of Leto and the twin sister of Apollo was one of the most widely venerated of the gods and manifestly one of the oldest...
The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ...
Syracuse (Italian, Siracusa, ancient Syracusa - see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse, Italy. ...
The Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt began following Alexander the Greats conquest in 332 BC and ended with the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman conquest in 30 BC. It was founded when Ptolemy I Soter declared himself Pharaoh of Egypt, creating a powerful Hellenistic state from southern Syria...
Between 1927 and 1932 they had been pulled out of the temporarily drained lake. After 19 centuries the hulls were found to still be mostly intact; however, fire destroyed the ships on May 31, 1944. It is widely disputed whether this was done deliberately by German forces retreating from Italy at the end of World War II, or accidentally by squatters taking refuge in the museum building.
See also Motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Roman Empire at its greatest extent, c. ...
The Roman Navy (Latin: Classis) operated between the First Punic war and the end of the Western Roman Empire. ...
External links Coordinates: 41°43′20″N, 12°42′6″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
|
Feeds |
Contact