 Orientation is locked. I want it this way one second. Hang on folks. We're live. Just give me a half second Why is it locked? Oh? Good discussions. Let's see. Hey, we're live just Hang on a sec looking at the backside here of the Pantheon to You're going by I will try it Hey, let's do it. We'll do it. We'll do verticals give it a shot because all the youngsters like vertical. Hi, Amelia Amelia should be studying. Okay, everybody. Hey ancient Rome live live and I want to take you on a little walk It is 9 p.m. In Rome and this is a nice quiet moment to be here People are going by we'll see in their bicycles I want to have you look down here for a second and we're gonna see a couple ancient things We're looking down into the pavement level Contemporary with the Emperor Hadrian and this is Come on this way. We're gonna go this way and walk into the so-called the silica of Neptune So it doesn't look very big because the bulk of the huge haul is not excavated but what we do have is an apps so an Apps if you're not familiar with this architectural construction is this recess sure you see it in churches But it all comes from the Greeks in particular the Romans and you see down below here Can you see that big square base? It was once lined with marble the whole Recess was lined with marble. This is for a colt statue. So if it's the basilica of Neptune Then you're honoring the god Neptune we know that there is such a structure in the time of a Grippa the right-hand man of Augustus He builds a stowa or a basilica According to the Greek source. This is the Hadrianic version of This structure. So we're literally just south of the pantheon this structure abuts the pantheon and Behind the south You'd make your way all the way to large Argentina with the four temples and a pit We have a great video on that on the reopening on ancient Rome live but in between the basilica this courthouse the basilica of Neptune and the pantheon and All the way to log Argentina in between is the baths of a grippa So a grippa built a lot for Augustus Augustus, of course ends the civil wars against Mark Antony and Cleopatra and he builds a lot in the city and He has his right-hand man and his great general a grippa build things as well so a grippa is going to be responsible for a lot of things in this big flood plain this flood plain is the campus marshes dedicated to the god of war He is credited he a grippa is credited with building the first pantheon the basilica of Neptune the baths he brings the aqua viergo that still fills the Trevi fountain and then of course he's going to build a stagnum a pool for swimming and Yeah, so man, I think you guys can hear me. Okay. Feel free to type in your questions or leave comments That's a beautiful day and We do get some We erected columns here. We do get some of the Entablature up at the top here Remember keep in mind that we are inside the basilica. We're not in the exterior of a building We're in the interior of a building that goes back the time of Hadrian now Let's pivot up for a second and we can see we're right that curve right there That's the pantheon. So we're not starting with our typical kind of you the pantheon We're starting with a little different view and it's just a reminder that the campus marshes was extremely crowded with all kinds of buildings And this is just one of so many buildings preserved in Rome that has Just a fraction of its entirety preserved invisible to us What's that? Oh my hand So I never I've ridden a scooter for many many many many many years and I never get hurt and I hurt my thumb So that's it. It's nobody gets a little sprain. I Still can do workouts, but I have to do it on my fists. I cannot do a normal push-up just yet So I have to be careful, but everything's cool. Thanks for asking Let's go over and we're gonna get a side view of the pantheon. So we'll come over the pantheon today We've done walks like this before You can check out all the great new content on ancient Rome live I'm gonna tell you that we always need your support a lot of you are very generous and we appreciate that We want everyone the average viewer if you're not involved in the organization Please get involved because we do extraordinary things. We can do this every night. I'm gonna do this every day So you're gonna see a lot more live stream. So it's just ancient Rome live.org slash support We're gonna have some online classes again, and we're gonna have a number of On location courses this year such as the Suvian cities City of Rome and so on. Yes Well, we're gonna be heading over to that's in the front of the pantheon the answer is no it has been excavated in sections I Need to devote a little video to that one segment that was revealed there was basically a part of the pavement Collapsed and an excavation then was done and during Kobe They revealed part of the pavement which is probably almost definitely dating to the time of the Hadrianic pantheon not the one of Agrippa and They subsequently covered it up, but They've done that another time So we know that the entire piazza was papers of Travertine stone in the time of Hadrian what it was in the time of Agrippa is another question Sorry, what year was it built? Pantheon was built the last time let's go back in time the panthen was built in the 20s BC by Agrippa same scale It burns down in the fire of 80 AD we talk about that in our larva Argentina video on the four temples in larva Argentina So there's a huge fire in the reign of Titus so Demission subsequently he succeeds his brother. He builds another pantheon and that burns down in a fire in 110 So the new up-to-date scholarship assessment is They're getting done with the form of Trajan 110 112 and The fire had taken place here in 110 So looking at brick stamps and so on the new assessment is that they start to build the final version of the pantheon in 114 who's the emperor Trajan he dies in 117 so it's going to be completed in about 125 by Hadrian So that's why we go around saying it's a hedronic pantheon But probably that ultimate awesome design was by our buddy Apollodorus of Damascus who's the Architect under Trajan we're going to come over here. I'm going to show you something else Great question. Yeah, let's turn around here for a second and show this little narrow street So your average Roman street is Two carts can pass. So this is like your average Roman street a little bit wider about 16 feet. So That's your average Roman street now In America in New York. I like to talk about Broad Street Okay, so you had the Villalata, which is Broad Street. That's the Villa though, Portugal the north south row that runs from the Vittoriano Monument to Cazado Popola And it was a very wide street by Roman standards probably twice as wide as a normal street There's also a Villalata a wide street or a Broad Street in Syracusa, which is a major Greek city in in in Sicily And I was just reading about another one the other day Anyways, so there are a number of Broad Streets and antiquity, but the most famous one of Rome was the Villa though course So let's come over and look at this structure right here Are there any instructions here by? Of course, what kind of description? There's like thousands of inscriptions That's it. That's a great question. I need to know what kind of description you want But can you see this wall right here? See how that looks. Yeah, so slowly slowly see that little wall Panning panning panning. So that's the outer wall of one of two covered walkways for the site to do the site to Julia the site there was a Let me tell you what that is. It's a voting enclosure. So Where do you go to vote, you know, you go to your local way It's the school the local school district and you go and vote in the states Here same thing we use their children schools to go and vote So what are the Romans do and voting was right here It's the main place to vote. So imagine a An enclosure That's what it was known at the enclosure the sheepfold for all the sheep to vote. So you line up You gave your little ticket or someone verifies that you're from a certain tribe And then you line up and you cast your vote and the vote was always out of the open But by the end of late at late Republic by the other late public people felt quite intimidated by other people So you kind of like I vote for this I don't vote for this and the guy looks at you Change your mind as you felt threatened. So they do eventually Institute of the Private so what you did was there's an isolated area where you're given your little test of that Which you'll mark when you're voting and then you deposit it in an urn and then it's counted in another structure called the Toria actually had a there's a pretty decent System and you have that more what you weren't behind a screen or anything like we do today to vote in privacy But you went up on a on a little bridge. So on the bridge you have that moment of Isolation, okay, so then imagine I'm talking about an area That's approximately three and a half football fields long and one football field wide So it's a huge area. You're enclosing it with walls. This is one of the walls now This is a wall though. That's built in the time of after the fire of 110 So it's attributed to Trajan and the Hadrian now, of course the Romans, you know, they don't like rain So they always want to have a place to be covered. So that wall Had in front of it a row of columns 300 meters long on both sides. So imagine a very large covered hall where it ultimately because of the The grandeur of the city and the wealth of the emperors it gets filled with artwork So one is named after the Argonauts Referring to the art probably a painting and the other one is of Melieger who hunts a wild boar There's more information that you want to know guys, but essentially You know, you have Republican times going back to 435 BC and you build it again and again and again remember It's from fire destruction and and flood damage. So the last big one was built by Augustus with with the Agrippa and it's called the Cypher Julia So they now add the family name of Julia Caesar So Cypher Julia and then you haven't rebuilt after the fire of 110 And that's the remains of which we're looking at right here. This one little piece of law So that also gives you an idea now How proud of the urban space was in the campus marshes that the voting enclosure here You've got the basilica Neptune there and then we're gonna wind our way to the front with the pantheon So just and just be honest to the east. There's a temple of Isis and so on. So this is a really crowded area Okay, great question. So if I walk Do south from here? 300 meters and cross streets. I'm in Largo Argentina and in Largo Argentina there are four Republican temples and budding up against behind Temple B. This is all in our amazing video on the reopening of our garden Tina, then you'll get it and you'll see a Wall that belongs to a space that was used by the Senate with Julia Caesar was assassinated Why was any killed in the Senate House in the form well and had burnt down in riots So it was in the process of being reconstructed Otherwise it would have been killed there So it's a it's a funny thing when you read your history books and you're told he's killed in the Senate House But then it's not in the form when the Senate House is they use another Senate House and that was in the complex built by that great general Pompey the Great So let's go. Yeah Okay, so what we'll do is I'm cool Yeah, what's the bad connection? 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It's not modern when you see here's a little fun fact It was not even a secret, but here's the here's the thing to do We need this ancient monuments Can you see all the chip brick right there to see how the brick has a has a has a three-dimensional kind of surface to it It's purposely been chipped. It's what they were doing since the early 1900s to tell you the viewer That that's not a real that's not an ancient brick. So it doesn't mean that the Pantheon's fake. It just means people how Some bricks fall out as the mortar weekends, but a lot of times people are robbing out bricks to recycle them You know how like today you say wow I would really like to have brick around my fireplace So they go to some tear-down building and rip out the bricks and recycle them because bricks today are expensive Same thing is going on here throughout post-antiquity the late antiquity and Middle Ages. So when you do And you do you see? Yeah, yeah, this is this is Rome Not a good idea. Anyways, when you do see more of the original surface I'm looking at a little segment right here. There are the telltale signs of some of the holes The metal pins that would have been placed with a metal where the holes are for holding in the marble venue So that's that's kind of it. 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Sorry as you can see all my stuff on all those handles Let's just go to the front we'll get the good stuff and the good stuff is the front and We're leaving the rotunda Think about the base walls the thickness of the base walls of the of the rotunda It's five meters thick think about that five meters is massive and it's gonna it's gonna Be reduced as you go up to the top But you gotta think about that rotunda as a big honeycomb you guys know what honeycombs are like So you have structural integrity you have a series of a network of walls But there are tons of voids So looking at something like this and don't think it's as simplistic as Solid mask going all the way to top holding up at 5,000 ton dome rather Just like the later domes of Brunelleschi and so on in Michelangelo. It's all with voids. It's all with hollow points We leave the rotunda We have the transition block. This is the transition block right here where there are staircases that take you up And in the future, I will take you up I've been up I will take you up in the future and then in the front porch the Pronounce where the columns are the other pronouns And you have these columns that weigh 50 tons a pop. So let's just You know take a little walk over here and We'll kind of finish up with the columns It's a pretty night as you can listen Still a lot of tourists here. Look at all these tourists with the heck What are you gonna do, but this is what you get when you get live, right? You get a lot of people It still feels like summer. We're still in the 90s And it's a beautiful night and everyone's out and then what then we'll go then we'll just go over to the Colony, which is good. Take a look at this beautiful view. That's what that gorgeous view The pantheon and of course, we're not going inside, but we can go now with the converse. 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You know can get buried one this case here doesn't get buried But look behind you and you see the modern street curves down here So when you something remains in use you just make it work and you tend to do stuff like this Anyways, the ground level is substantially lower than where we are today Just go look at dark Argentina couples in the pit and so forth look down at the Roman form and so on Part of it is man-made intervention like hey our drains are now clogged Let's go up and let's put another series of drains, you know And so the things get buried in that way and another way is we're in a flood plain to a lot of materials floods Centuries and centuries of Sometimes you know by annual floods, so you just it's gonna get a lot of material imagine I mean a Katrina after Katrina after Katrina if you can relate to Katrina You know depends what your age you might say what's Katrina because we're too young But if you're old enough you remember the devastation of Katrina then what do we do afterwards? We dig out New Orleans here. You don't dig it out. You simply Put another pavement up on top We literally can see that in section on various excavations. Let's just come inside here just to enjoy these these columns It's a lovely evening. Let's show them the piazza out here a lot of people out and If we Think this so what are you looking at? We're looking at abscess for colossal statuary now missing We've got in a bronze door that is definitely ancient various scholarly debates on how authentic it is to this building versus the original one We don't have to go into that but we can see The roofing system so originally it was a drop ceiling that hid this away But it wasn't hiding away rafters and wood. It was hiding away Beams of bronze they get robbed out by the Barberines by border me called the keynote and I think we did a pretty good job. We did a pretty good walk I'm gonna have fun with the live stream. We have a lot of people watching 173 people. Oh, that's that's quite nice The columns are supposed to be taller. Absolutely. These are 40 footers. It was supposed to be 50 footers Do they have any karyatas remaining? No, that's a karyatas description was applied to in the ancient sources to the Uh a grippen pantheon not this pantheon. We don't think this one had uh karyatas figures a dent From a ram on the bronze door and I was there. Yeah Things are bound bound to get damaged Uh No, there were karyatas in the pantheon I'm liking the ancient source. Why didn't it come to Dio, but it's definitely applied to the The pantheon of of the grippa. So yeah, believe it. It was they were there Oh a lot of great content a lot of great comments. Will do lies as often as possible. I appreciate that and uh I'm gonna work on next time. We'll try a course on full which will obviously change the dynamic I think it can probably help us a lot more and that we'll just add to our library On uh ancient room live. 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