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Principles of Roman Architecture
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Jump right into learning about Roman Architecture by reading this book.

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Urban Dictionary and Naptown
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Check out the various definitions of Naptown, then add it to your vocab.

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Interested in Mount Vesuvius?
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Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It has erupted many times since and is today regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people now living close to it and its tendency towards explosive eruptions. It is the most densely populated volcanic region in the world.

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Mount Vesuvius DVD
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The History Channel knows what they're doing. And quite frankly, who wouldn't want to watch a DVD titled "The Wrath of God - Mount Vesuvius"?

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Views of Rome
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Here is an Indianapolis Museum of Art painting depicting various monuments of Rome.

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Indianapolis - Then and Now
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Learn more about the city of Indianapolis in this book. Great pictures, well written. Wow you friends at the your next dinner party with your expertise in Indianapolis history.

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Washington Street, Indianapolis at Dusk
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Here is an IMA work of art depicting Indianapolis around 1892. This cityscape features the State House, the brilliantly lighted Park Theatre, and Washington Street's bustling commercial life. The tower of the old Marion County Courthouse can be seen in the distance.

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Roman Forum
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The Roman Forum was THE bustling space in the middle of ancient Rome. You can walk around in it today and imagine the history, politics and culture of historic Rome.

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National Mall
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Book your flight to Washington D.C. and check out this beautiful park and Roman inspired open space.

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Visit this website to learn what buildings surround the Mall.

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Tour the Colosseum
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Visit this innovative Discovery Channel website to learn more about the different areas of the Colosseum.

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The Naptown Roller Girls
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00:00:19 There are two basic characteristics of Roman architecture that are really crucial; one is cement and one is the arch

00:00:28 and that's all you really need to know about Roman architecture because everything is based on that.

00:00:35 Concrete was discovered by the Romans, thanks to the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic ash that developed and deposited itself near Pompeii

00:00:45 created a material which the Romans realized when they put it into the water, could actually harden.

00:00:51 Opus caementicium, as it was called, was, in effect, the creation of a way to have structures built that didn't rest on each other the way a column might with an architrave on top of it.

00:01:02 If you take, say, the arch, an arch if you line them up you create a vault. If you draw it 180 degrees, you get an apse.

00:01:13 If you draw it 360 degrees, you get a dome.

00:01:16 Arches and vaults were made in this concrete and creating the opportunity, as time went on, to have enormous spans and huge domes and vaults.

00:01:26 All of these things that today we take for granted were inventions in the time of the Romans.

00:01:32 The gift of Vesuvius, you might say.

00:01:35 The reflection of Roman influence in Indianapolis is very deep.

00:01:40 If you take our State House, it could be the Temple of Concord with the dome on top.

00:01:46 Almost every government building in the United States is a direct rip-off of Roman architecture.

00:01:54 Indianapolis' Monument Circle is clearly derived from the columns of the Roman emperors.

00:02:00 The Column of Marcus Aurelius or the Column of Trajan, in Rome, are all celebrating military events.

00:02:09 The Roman forum was the center of everything.

00:02:12 It's almost a center of the civilization of ancient Rome unpacked in architecture and monuments that you can see and walk through time all the way back to the first century BC.

00:02:22 The Mall is a forum. The buildings around it have the same sort of Roman character. It was meant to be, sort of, a gathering place for the city.

00:02:36 Well, the Colosseum is a fascinating structure. Which, again, is really simply a combination of the arch and cement,

00:02:46 and it was designed, really, as a place for the Roman people to go and see spectacles of one kind or another,

00:02:53 and there really is no difference in the architecture of any football stadium in the country today from the Roman arena.

00:03:02 The whole western role is beholding to the inventions of Roman architecture and up until the 19th century, in terms of that kind of engineering, there really weren't very many advances beyond what the Romans have figured out in the first century BC.