 Hey, this is Darius. This is Darius. We're here in Rome. We're in the campus marshes. We're gonna take a little walk in the campus marshes This is ancient Rome live live stream. We will take questions in a few moments. So Always have people to join for just a minute Come over here. We're in Margo, Argentina. So why not start? Why not start here? Thanks for joining and why don't start looking down at some cats in this lovely lovely Sanctuary I can see one right down there or right behind temple be so incidentally where we're starting our walk is literally in The space where Julius Caesar was assassinated. You can't get more historical than that's a beautiful beautiful night it's the beginning of October and There's still a lot of people here. So follow me. We're gonna go over to I want to take you over to the temple of Hadrian so Where we are right now is Larva Argentina Larva container has four Republican temples We just had a lot of work done on the streets around here and What we'll do is we're getting a little bit of a View of how crowded Rome is right now. We're gonna cross the street Be on our way into pedestrian only areas, but if we look down right here when you see the edge of these columns right here of Temple a temple of your tour now, which is in Larva Argentina just beyond it then you're getting another colon aid Which I can now Trace out with my fingers this point here and up where that standing column is that's actually another structure So we want to think about the campus marches is being very very crowded We have Republican sanctuary for temples of Larva Argentina We have a wonderful wonderful video of that and that's temple a Of the sacred area of four Republican temples But beyond it beyond this tree right here this cypress tree Just beyond it right here Actually technically in roman terms right here This is another structure. It's actually a very long Column aid and then beyond it you see there's a wall Right there. That's the end of that portico section right here and beyond it where the street is Is the derivative structure The derivative structure is that structure where you count the votes. So we all know about Voting is important So once we cross the street we'll be in the site where you had voting take place You know how important it is how voting is important You have to register and you'd vote as you would show you that you're a citizen and you're voting in Rome in the time of the Republic But then you have to count the vote So we actually know how important it is also to count the vote you want a free and fair election And that's what's just place in the busy getting street here of larga gentina Think about your own Political social commentary in your mind as we cross the street It's a lovely evening and we will Walk off in the distance. You can see the the jesu church are only Jesuit church in Rome Maybe pause to see the beautiful catwalks that have been lit right here It's a beautiful beautiful success story of larga argentina. We should do a lie from inside there, of course, it's closed now But look how gorgeous the site looks. This is our great window into republican Rome In terms of the campus marches in republican Rome. You can't do much better than this Truly truly extraordinary. So we're looking at uh Pavements in travertine stone that's are going to be laid down after the fire of 80 So we also want to think about the flood thing being devastated by floods in fires throughout its history I shoot. Okay. Let's cross real quick Crossing the street in larga. This is like one of the slowest Slowest lights. So now we're in the area of the site for julia. So the site for julia is going to be where People line up to vote. So as we go up the street here It's a very long It's a very long street A pan up into the street here I think it's all the way to the to the pantheon So you think that there's a 300 meter long Structure what it is essentially is uh uh Two long colonnades And then you have outer walls So between the outer wall and the row of columns you have a roof to two long roofed colonnades surrounding an area which is Three football fields by one football field And it's a great huge area where people come together and gather and vote And you voted by tribe now Causing off the side here. We can see an ancient structure incorporated into uh Into the walls here of the building that curved wall is actually a large hall that belongs to the baths of Agrippa last built in the third century ad so we'll uh We'll go on And today's goal Is to get us to We're gonna go right past the pantheon I'm gonna go right over hang a right Going east to the temple of hadrian the god so Think about the month of october There are lots of festivals. My favorite is the festival of the october horse Where you have races in the campus marches and then you take the horses from the victorious chariot And you take those horses and you sacrifice them So you chop off the head And then you have people vying for who wins the head and you take the bloody head And the blood will be dripped down on the altar of mars in the regia, which is in the forum And uh, it's a It's a great fun. It's a great treat So you want to think of in terms of like the polio of sienna or think about how you're racing and ultimately For the romans it comes down to a sacrifice and you're actually sacrificing something very important to the romans a horse what you're making as an offering to mars passing by the Santamaria so from manurva Which is on top of manurva. We're actually talking about a manifestation of Isis so the big temple of isis of the imperial period is underneath this church tons of Egyptian material has been recuperated from the Uh, the the temple and a lot of it are in a room in the capitaline museum. But now here we are behind the pantheon And we talked about the pantheon and our last last live walk We talked about the structures behind the pantheon like the basilica of nephews. We get a view of that So we're just gonna we're just tying in What we talked about last time. We had another nice live walk. I hope you guys like The horizontal view. I think it's a little bit better And it's just gonna make our way and get a nice view of the pantheon As we kind of a walked by drive by pantheon So just think don't take it just keep on On the pantheon as I walk but this is the narrate a little bit you can see the scale You can see the exterior work work. You can see some relieving arches in the Fabric of the of the balls here. So it's just a great masterpiece, but it was one thing you should think about the pantheon Think about that big rotunda as In the interior of those massive walls. It's like a honeycomb There are lots of structural voids in the making of the Pantheon such as one big solid mass. It's much more Uh sophisticated So what we'll do is we're We're going to go and hang a right and I want to take you to the Temple of Hadrian. So we know that he probably didn't start it, but he definitely completed it And this is going to be Hadrian in the 120s Let's cut this way No, sorry. I'm sorry To keep in mind we we're going to be doing a whole series of these streams and keep in mind that we are Launching this month our capital drive. We have a number of Challenge grants that have been issued to the institute So if you make a donation of a hundred or more, it will be matched $100 or more you can go up to our HTML live Website and you can make a contribution. We'll just tax deductible And I don't think anyone else does what we do in terms of the access that we have to exhibitions and museums as well as these kinds of education and live walks So we really want your participation. We really want your support And we just keep that in mind as we go around here We're going to go across now from the Pantheon You've seen us do the Pantheon. We have videos on the Pantheon. We'll do more videos in the Pantheon We're now going to cut across this narrow street line with restaurants And we're going to be over to the Gatsudegyepne Which is going to give us this very well preserved Temple of Hadrian, but before we get the temple to Hadrian I'm going to show you something that most people don't recognize It's another temple. So this is very very proud and urban fabric Kind of like it is today And you literally had One building on top of another one temple precinct next to the million So right up here we're going to Make a left from this little alleyway So before we get to the temple of Hadrian There was a temple to Matidia And Matidia was Mother-in-law Over here This abusive use of a tabletop. This is actually a Cipollino marble column absolutely quite large And it belongs to the temple of Matidia the mother-in-law of Hadrian So this right here really shouldn't be covered in blackness such. We're extremely historic it's actually They actually cut into this wall here to show you the diameter is actually huge Pull back. Yeah So anyways, like this There we go Cipollino marble from Hadistas. So another temple then sort of built into my left Incorporated within the building to my left Is a very large temple And So right here in this building There are a whole series of truncated Cipollino marble columns temple of Matidia So we know this from some prints by Tienanese And then subsequent to the 18th century is getting covered with this mess But these buildings Incorporated those remaining columns So in more recent times, and I'm talking the past Not even 10 years there's been Restoration of building an analysis of material And as a result We know with confidence that this indeed is the remains Of a temple structure that the scholarship has identified With the temple that was constructed to honor Hadrian's mother-in-law Matidia And really in the campus marches, really in the campus marches There is a whole series of and to nine Temples dedicated to family members Of that dynasty this right here where I guess now there's some sort of Exhibition which is a shame It's kind of messing up our view This is the temple of Hadrian Okay, these things happen Come over here and get a little bit of a view And this is live and this is This ancient Rome where what a would it be for backup? So we have to the right this building right here is the chamber of commerce and they use This whole series the whole side of the temple of Hadrian which has been preserved from antiquity There's been incorporated into that structure and now sometimes the use for on the inside the use of for Conferences we have the exterior with people be preserved. So what are we looking at? What we're looking at is opines in marble columns From the shaft up to the capitals and then we have italic marble up on top of the cornice truly is Uh an amazing structure because it's not just the exterior Side of the temple that's preserved, but it's also a lot of the inside is preserved And so we want to think about Temple of Machidia we're thinking about temple of Hadrian beyond we have The temple of Marcus Aurelius That would have been further been amplified by the presence of the column of Marcus Aurelius So we have a lot of antonine Figures here and each one of these deified figures each one of these people They had an extremely a huge gated space About half the maybe say quarter the size of a football field if not larger The gilder bronze fences and the each one of those individual spaces you have the Cremation of the remains of each individual who has been deified So the spot where you burn the body and in the body's soul seems in heaven takes his place with the gods That place becomes sacred as well. So you get a whole kind of the interpretation or recent years is kind of all gridded out it's all gridded out with um Places to honor these antonine effort now the antonized pious of austina their temples in the forum That's a really famous structure because it's converted into the church of st. Lawrence of the miracle But otherwise there's like a grouping here in the second century and a build out of structures honoring those individual emperors and emperors And the best thing we can do at this point Let's see there. Let's see if there are any questions I'm afraid we're just going to burn too much time to pop over to the column pop over to the column We'll pop over to the column of Marcus Aurelius and take questions there. So just bear with me in these crowds for a minute or two And admire this as we go by You're getting a lot bringing a lot of mileage out of ancient monuments I remember I've been in the late 90s This basically was a car park There's a wine wine bar and a coffee shop and that was it And now if you come a place it's spectacle become a place, right? That's really uh very much appreciated Which is uh, you know, really nice to see it's just And you know, it's gonna be tonight Well, here's a beautiful beautiful couple of songs that we have here We're going to hang a left and we'll be at the column of Marcus Aurelius So you want to think again about all these layers of history And we're heading now Yes, we're heading to the column Marcus Aurelius Which is a duplicate a copy of the column of Trajan But we're also coming up to the piazza which has Palazzo Chigi and Palazzo Chigi is where the prime minister Uh resides and works from so straight ahead that facade is Palazzo Chigi And then on the left is the parliament building And lo and behold I haven't seen this piazza open to the public in years And apparently it's open to the public I have not seen this in a long long time. So it looks like we can go in which is really cool People walking the dogs That's a nice thing. Well, that's fantastic All right, take a look at this I literally I literally have not walked in this piazza in years Since COVID it's been blocked out. It's the first time I've seen it open to the public, which is a great A great great thing for us. Let's take a look at the column. I'll Give you some views It looks like they had some sort of manifestation or something what we do get A wonderful wonderful view of the column of Marcus Aurelius See if we can We can zoom in here or not Yes, second and then we'll take some questions, but this would have been This would have been flanked By a here we go. Look at that. Look at this detail It's slightly taller than Trajan's column. Yes I'm going to walk around I'm going to show you the famous Rainstorms actually it's blocked off there. We'll go this way the rainstorms here now. You can see the base is not preserved This is a modern inscription but what we do have is Well, we have some details here, but it's damaged because it gets does get struck by lightning Come on close we get the view of some of the better preserved release It is a deeper relief than that of Trajan Marcus Marches, somebody's asking how busy it was. It was extremely busy And here we can already see for example And there's the emperor standing up on a box isolated Let's come over here There are some trucks and stuff. They finished some sort of event Come over here. We can see our Just great scenes of Our battle I mean look at those details. Remember this is all painted And it's the Romans against the Germans and it's really cool again to be inside here We see the holes for the windows So just like in Trajan's column, you can see my video on Trajan's column We have a similar kind of scenario where you'd make your way All the way to the top and what was actually right here Is the is a newspaper stand But a building but it actually was the location we think of the temple of Marcus Aurelius the god so What an extraordinary extraordinary, uh, I think visit we've taken today There's the doorway to modern doorway the ancient door. It would be meters down below us about five meters six meters below us Let's come over here and we'll see if we can take some We'll take some questions And see if there are any questions. I didn't notice them already Actually, I guess I can do that too What type of events would have taken place if there was after was erected. Well, here you're having Uh, so arbitrary events honoring, uh, Marcus really is the god for example Was it used as a tomb? Uh, no his temples behind us. So the temple would be most likely, uh, they have a temple here but the tomb Would be I think he's buried inside of the mausoleum of uh, of Hadrian. That's the end sign from buried That's the whole point of mausoleum of Hadrian. Let's see if there any other Comments Let's see here Okay, a lot of great comments. How about typing anything more recent Around for 20 20 minutes. Let's see if there any last let's see if there any last questions Any last questions? This is again as Daris are it age from live age from live as you know Is an educational organization part of america's institute for women culture, which is a 501c3. We have a capital Challenge grants. 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I mean about roman cities No, so the column here is you go inside it and spiral to the top if you go to my youtube channel Which is just my name Daris are it you can go inside trading's column I haven't done a video on this but I have been inside this column as well. Which is extraordinary Is it bigger than the column of trading? Yes. Yes, it's it's taller definitely It is Always you're trying to better the first that came before you so the mausoleum hadron is bigger than the mausoleum of augustus Slightly taller is the idea. It's just like skyscraper. It's a one-upmanship. You know the same kind of mold but larger And uh, it really it really is a spectacular evening to be here with you So we have a separate post then on youtube. It's called live, you know, we have shorts We have the videos front of the lives It's going to be these live walks and we'll be doing many many more in places like austia in places like Tivoli, so there's you know, you have a look forward to a lot more Live walks and of course about every week we're dropping new videos on ancient Rome live Sometimes with the complementary video on my channel. So you're going to see a lot more content At the end of the year. We have a lot more to share with you Thank you for joining and we'll see you again. Darius are for ancient Rome live. Thanks for joining me in the campus marshes