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Ponte Lucano
The Lucano bridge (in Italian: ''ponte Lucano'') is a Roman stone bridge over the Aniene river in the Province of Rome, Italy, on the via Tiburtina. Coming from the direction of Rome, the bridge is found after Tivoli Terme and before Hadrian's Villa. This bridge was part of the project for the most endangered monuments of the World Monuments Fund for the year 2010. History The bridge which dates to the first century BC crosses the Aniene in the vicinity of Tivoli, Lazio, Tibur (Tivoli) and consists of seven stone arches which carried traffic on the via Tiburtina up to the 20th century. In modern times the road was rerouted a little further north over a new bridge. The archeological site also includes the mausoleum of the Plautia gens, Plautii, a great round tower on the south bank of the river, that dates to the first century BC, and the ruins of an inn dating from the 15th century. The Plautii were an illustrious Roman family who counted amongst its members Gaius Plautius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponte Lucano Panorama Modifié-1
Ponte, a word meaning ''bridge'' in Italian, Portuguese, and Galician languages, may refer to: Places England *Pontefract, a town in the Metropolitan City of Wakefield France *Ponte Leccia, a civil parish (hameau) in the department of Haute-Corse Italy ;Municipalities *Ponte, Campania, Ponte (BN), in the Province of Benevento *Ponte Buggianese, in the Province of Pistoia *Ponte dell'Olio, in the Province of Piacenza *Ponte di Legno, in the Province of Brescia *Ponte di Piave, in the Province of Treviso *''Ponte Gardena'', Italian name for Waidbruck, in South Tyrol *Ponte in Valtellina, in the Province of Sondrio *Ponte Lambro, in the Province of Como *Ponte nelle Alpi, in the Province of Belluno *Ponte Nizza, in the Province of Provincia di Pavia *Ponte Nossa, in the Province of Bergamo *Ponte San Nicolò, in the Province of Padua *Ponte San Pietro, in the Province of Bergamo ;Civil parishes and quarters *Ponte (rione of Rome), Ponte (Rome), a ''rione'' in the City of Rome *Pon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Century BC
The 1st century Before Christ, BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century Common Era , BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC, 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC, 1 BC. The Anno Domini, AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a zero, as well as a minus sign, so "''2 BC''" is equal to "''year –1''". 1st century AD (Anno Domini) follows. In the course of the century, all the remaining independent lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea were steadily brought under Roman control, being ruled either directly under governors or through Puppet monarch, puppet kings appointed by Rome. The Roman state itself was plunged into civil war several times, finally resulting in the marginalization of its 500-year-old Roman Republic, and the embodiment of total state power in a single man—the Roman emperor. The internal turbulence that plagued Rome at this time can be seen as the death throes of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridges Completed In The 1st Century BC
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many different designs of bridges, each serving a particular purpose and applicable to different situations. Designs of bridges vary depending on factors such as the function of the bridge, the nature of the terrain where the bridge is constructed and anchored, and the material used to make it, and the funds available to build it. The earliest bridges were likely made with fallen trees and stepping stones. The Neolithic people built boardwalk bridges across marshland. The Arkadiko Bridge (dating from the 13th century BC, in the Peloponnese) is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' traces the origin of the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Della Valle
Pietro Della Valle ( la, Petrus a Valle; 2 April 1586 – 21 April 1652), also written Pietro della Valle, was an Italian composer, musicologist, and author who travelled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period. His travels took him to the Holy Land, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and as far as India. Life Pietro Della Valle was born in Rome on 2 April 1586, to a wealthy and noble family. His early life was spent in the pursuit of literature and arms. He was a cultivated man, who knew Latin, Greek, classical mythology, and the Bible. He also became a member of the Roman Accademia degli Umoristi, and acquired some reputation as a versifier and rhetorician. When Pietro was disappointed in love and began to consider suicide, Mario Schipano, a professor of medicine in Naples, suggested the idea of travelling in the East. It was Schipano who received a sort of diary in letters from Pietro's travels. Before leaving Naples, Pietro took a vow to make a pilgrimage to the Holy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piranesi
Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (''Carceri d'invenzione''). He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and . Biography Piranesi was born in Venice, in the parish of S. Moisè where he was baptised. His father was a stonemason. His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin literature and ancient Greco-Roman civilization, and later he was apprenticed under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was a leading architect in ''Magistrato delle Acque'', the state organization responsible for engineering and restoring historical buildings. From 1740, he had an opportunity to work in Rome as a draughtsman for Marco Foscarini, the Venetian ambassador of the new Pope Benedict XIV. He resided in the Palazzo Venezia and studied under Giuseppe Vasi, who introduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via Tiburtina
Via Tiburtina is an ancient road in Italy leading east-northeast from Rome to Tivoli (Latin, Tibur) and then, with the via Valeria, on to Pescara (Latin, Aternum). Historical road It was probably built by the Roman censor Marcus Valerius Maximus in 307 BCPiraino C. 2004: "The via Valeria and the centuriation", in Lapenna s. (ed.), The Aequi between Abruzzo and Lazio, Chieti, 115-118. at the time of the conquest of the Aequi territory and later lengthened probably in about 154 BC by Marcus Valerius Messalla to the territories of the Marsi and the Aequi in the Abruzzo, as Via Valeria. Its total length was approximately 200 km from Rome to Aternum (the modern Pescara). It exited Rome through the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Tiburtina, and through the Servian Wall at the Porta Esquilina. Historians assert that the Via Tiburtina must have come into existence as a trail during the establishment of the Latin League. It is difficult to determine the part of the course from Albula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Plautius Silvanus (consul 2 BC)
Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman politician and general active during the Principate. He was consul in 2 BC as the colleague of the emperor Augustus. Biography Marcus Plautius Silvanus the son of another Marcus Plautius Silvanus and Urgulania,Lily Ross Taylor"Trebula Suffenas and the Plautii Silvani" ''Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome'', 24 (1956), p. 24 a close friend of the empress Livia who was of Etruscan descent. It is suggested by Ronald Syme, extrapolating from Tacitus, that it was Urgulania's influence over Livia that allowed Silvanus to climb the cursus honorum, enabling him to reach the consulate in 2 BC alongside Augustus. Silvanus was then made proconsul of Asia in 4-5 AD, followed by appointment as ''legatus pro praetore'' of the imperial province of Galatia in 6 AD, where he was involved in suppressing the Isaurians as mentioned in Cassius Dio.Cassius Dio, ''The Roman History'', LV, 28 He was also a septemvir of the Epulones. Although Silvanus serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Plautius Venox
Gaius Plautius Venox was a Roman statesman and general who served as consul in 347 and 341 BC. Plautius was a member of the family of the Plautii, a relatively undistinguished plebeian gens who had only achieved their first consulship in 358 BC. Plautius' father and grandfather were both named Lucius and may have had a son named Gaius, who was the father of Gaius Plautius Venox, Censor in 312 BC. Career In 347 BC, Plautius served in his first consulship alongside Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus, an illustrious Roman general of the era. In his year in office there was tranquility both at home and abroad, a condition which was only increased by the consuls reducing the interest rates on debts from one percent to half a percent, which made debts far more payable to those who held them. In 341 BC, Plautius was elected consul for a second time, with Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus as his colleague. Unlike his previous consular year, this year was one marred by war, of which there were th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Plautius Proculus
Gaius Plautius Proculus was the first member of the gens Plautia gens, Plautia to achieve Roman consul, consular rank. Little is known of his life before becoming consul with Gaius Fabius Ambustus (consul), Gaius Fabius Ambustus in 358 BC, although there is some archaeological evidence that his family came from Privernum.Nicola Terrenato, "Private Vis, Public Virtus: Family agendas during the early Roman expansion", in ''Roman Republican Colonization New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History'', edited by Tesse D. Stek and Jeremia Pelgrom (Rome: Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome#Publications, Papers of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, 2014), pp. 48f At the same time Gaius Sulpicius Peticus was made consul to deal with a Gaulish threat. The two consuls led their armies against other opponents, Fabius against the Etruscans and Plautius against raids made by the Privernates and the Hernici. Although Fabius suffered a defeat in Etruria, Plautius was successful over h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plautia Gens
The gens Plautia, sometimes written Plotia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC .... Members of this gens first appear in history in the middle of the fourth century BC, when Gaius Plautius Proculus obtained the Roman consul, consulship soon after that magistracy was opened to the plebeian order by the ''lex Licinia Sextia''. Little is heard of the Plautii from the period of the Samnite Wars down to the late second century BC, but from then to Roman Empire, imperial times they regularly held the consulship and other offices of importance.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 405 ("s:Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Plautia gens, Plautia Gens"). In the first century AD, the empe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tivoli, Lazio
Tivoli ( , ; la, Tibur) is a town and in Lazio, central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills. The city offers a wide view over the Roman Campagna. History Gaius Julius Solinus cites Cato the Elder's lost ''Origines'' for the story that the city of Tibur was founded by Catillus the Arcadian, a son of Amphiaraus, who came there having escaped the slaughter at Thebes, Greece. Catillus and his three sons Tiburtus, Coras, and Catillus drove out the Siculi from the Aniene plateau and founded a city they named Tibur in honor of Tiburtus. According to another account, Tibur was a colony of Alba Longa. Historical traces of settlement in the area date back to the thirteenth century BC. ''Tibur'' may share a common root with the river Tiber and the Latin praenomen ''Tiberius (praenomen), Tiberius''. From Etruscans, Etruscan times Tibur, a Sabine city, was the seat of the Tiburtine Sibyl. There are two small temples abov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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