I want to spend the rest of today's lecture on
the three most important buildings, in a sense, that I'm going to show you today.
These will be the development of Roman religious architecture,
specifically temple architecture.
And I think I'm actually going to call for your help.
You've learned a lot already, and I think you now know enough to
help me along a little bit here on sorting out some of these temples.
One of them is located in Rome.
And the other two are located outside of Rome.
I'll show you the map again in a second so
that you can see where those other two are.
But I'm going to begin with the one in Rome which takes me back to
Google Earth here.
To show you the situation of the so called Temple of Portunus in Rome that dates
to we believe sometime between, it was put up sometime between 120 and 80 BC in Rome.
You're going to get so
good at this that you're going to be able to point out all these places without me.
But we're looking back again over, this is the Palatine hill,
we're looking at a slightly different angle, Palatine hill over here.
The very edge of the Colosseum you can see in the upper left.
The great Via dei Fori Imperiali of Mussolini over here,
the Imperial Fora here.
The wedding cake of Victor Emmanuel,
the Vittoriano that I showed you last time over here, the more modern building.
The Capitoline hill, you can see the oval palazzo of Michelangelo here.
And the Circus Maximus over here, and if for any of you have been to Rome,
the Isola Tiverina, that wonderful little island that one can
across the bridge to get to and Rome down here.
So here's the Tiber river looking nasty as it usually does.
It's very green and
not [LAUGH] the sort of place you'd want to take a swim in as you can well imagine.
But you see the Tiber river here.
And if you look very closely, you will see two temples.
This is a round temple, which has the very uninventive, which is called today,
very uninventively, the Round Temple by the Tiber.
The Round Temple by the Tiber, for obvious reasons, and then here,
a rectangular temple that looks like it has a red roof, because it was undergoing
It's be undergoing reconstruction, restoration recently.
You see that here, this is the Temple of Portunus.
So you can see, in conjunction to another temple that was built,
very close to the river, to the Tiber River.
Now let's look at the plan together of the Temple of Portunus.
Based on your understanding of typical Etruscan religious architecture,
typical Greek religious architecture, what would you say about this plan?
Is this more like an Etruscan temple or more like a Greek temple?
I can't remember, I think I forgot to mention with regard to the Parthenon
that not only does the typical Greek temple in the fifth century BC have
a staircase the encircles the entire monument, it has a colonnade.
A free standing colonnade that circles the entire monument.
And that's called a peripteral.
P-E-R-I-P-T-E-R-A-L.
A peripteral colonnade.
So based on what you know about temple of Jupiter and
the temple of and the Parthenon in Athens.
Does this plan and plan when we look at this building,
does this look more like an Etruscan plan or like a Greek plan?
