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labyrinth of concrete vaulted rooms, many in complex geometric forms. An

extensive garden with a lake and forest spread around it.

The architect Severus seems to have been in charge of this great project.

Emperors and emperors’ architects succeeding Nero and Severus continued and

expanded their work of rebuilding and regularizing Rome. Vespasian (emperor AD

63-79) began the Colosseum. Which I have a model bad of. Built by prisoners from

the Jewish wars the 50,000 Colosseum is one of the most intresting architectural

feets of Rome. At its opening in 80 A.D. the Colosseum was flooded by diverting

the Tiber river about 10 kilometers to renact a naval battel with over 3,000

participants. Domitian (81-96) rebuilt the Palatine Hill as a huge palace of

vaulted concrete designed by his architect Rabirius. Trajan (97-117) erected the

expansive forum that bears his name (designed by his architect Apollodorus) and

a huge public bath. Hadrian (117-138) who served as his own architect, built the

Pantheon as well as a villa the size of a small city for himself at Tivoli.

Later Caracalla (211-217) and Diocletian (284-305) erected two mammoth baths

that bear their names, and Maxentius (306-312) built a huge vaulted basilica,

now called the Basilica of Constantine.

The Baths of Caracalla have long been accepted as a summation of Roman

culture and engineering. It is a vast building, 360 by 702 feet (110 by 214

meters), set in 50 acres (20 hectares) of gardens. It was one of a dozen

establishments of similar size in ancient Rome devoted to recreation and bathing.

There were a 60- by 120-foot (18- by 36-meter) swimming pool, hot and cold baths,

gymnasia, a library, and game rooms. These rooms were of various geometric

shapes. The walls were thick, with recesses, corridors, and staircases cut into

them. The building was entirely constructed of concrete with barrel, groined,

and domical vaults spanning as far as 60 feet (18 meters) in many places. Inside,

all the walls were covered with thin slabs of colored marble or with painted

stucco. The decorative forms of this coating were derived from Greek

The rebuilding of Rome set a pattern copied all over the empire. Nearby,