 Theater of Marcellus, Italy The Theater of Marcellus is located in Rome, Italy. The theater was named after Marcus Marcellus, Augustus' nephew who died 5 years before its completion. The theater was completed in 11 B.C and was inaugurated in 13 B.C. by Emperor Augustus. Julius Caesar originally began its construction in 22 B.C. but was murdered before it was completed. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1...
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For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...
Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ...
The Theater of Marcellus could originally hold 15,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theater was built mainly of tufa, cement and opus reticulatum brickwork, completely sheaved in white tavertine. The network of arches, corridors, tunnels and ramps that gave access to the interiors of such Roman theatres were normally ornamented with a screen of engaged columns in Greek orders. Doric at the base, Ionic in the middle and Corinthian above. Tufa is the name for an unusual geological formation. ...
In the general sense, a cement (Latin caementum) is any material with adhesive properties. ...
Doric, a synonym of Dorian, may refer to any of the following: The Dorians, one of the ancient Hellenic races, Doric Greek, the dialect of the former, the Doric order and its distinctive Doric column, in ancient Greek architecture, the Dorian mode in music, also called the Doric mode, or...
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Like other Roman theaters in suitable locations, it had openings through which the natural setting could be seen, in this case the Tiber Island. The scaena also rose to the top of the cavea like other Roman theaters. In Roman times the cavea were the subterranean cells in which wild animals were confined before the combats in the Roman arena or amphitheatre. ...
In the Middle Ages it was used as a fortress of the Savelli family. Later, in the 16th century, the residence of the Orsini family was placed atop the ruins of the ancient theatre. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...
Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ...
The Orsini family was a powerful noble family in medieval and renaissance Rome, supplying three popes and many other leaders, and fighting with their rivals, the Colonna family, for influence. ...
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