It has so much potential. I was there a few years ago and the guide/guard of the place told and showed us so much. You can find the most impressive, still intact, old capitels in the world and the most beautiful roman mosaics. If Ostia impresses you, this would blow your mind. If only they finally restored it and finished it as a museum......... It's a real gem!
Rome is everwhere. It is around us. It is inside us. It was there long before us, and it will be there when we are long gone. Rome is forever. It is our past, our present and our future. And I am high as fuck.
I adore these tour-guide videos! Were basilicas still being used for secular purposes in this period, or were they purely religious? 'Cause that's a lot of basilicas!
Gorgeous video and excellent job as always. It would be amazing if you could cover Alba Fucens (in modern day Abruzzo, Italy), explaining also the Italic wars and the Roman colonies system. It features also the stunning church of San Pietro in Albe (constructed in a former temple) and the alleged final resting place of Perseus, last king of Macedonia. Not to talk about the nearby Fucinus lake, that you already covered in one of your earlier works. Thanks for your excellent work!
It's amazing to me how degraded these ruins are despite being so much younger than older ruins elsewhere. The construction materials look more coarse and the masonry appears to be a poorer quality than masonry in older parts of the Empire.
In addition to possibly poorer materials with which to work, much of the sixth century was fraught with difficulty for the people then living, with skewed climactic conditions (now believed to have been caused by vulcanism) and what was apparently the first outbreak of bubonic plague blighting much of Justinian's reign. The labor pool, and skilled labor, might have become attenuated.
If it was never completed, then are these ruins or the remnants of uncompleted buildings? I see lots of brick and stone, but no marble. Who lived there, or was supposed to live there? Where did they come from? How do we know the purpose of the buildings? There must have been some documentation that described the layout and the purpose of the structures.
They were probably used to build new buildings and new towns somewhere else. There were many Old West mining towns in the US in the 1800s. These were 'Boomtowns' made mostly out of wood that would happen overnight when rich mine opened. When the ore was depleted the town died and became a 'Ghost Town'. The ghost towns were torn down and the wood was removed to be used in another "Boomtown', so all that is left are the stone foundations.
People took them to build homes. That went on with even the churches in the Balkans(some mosques were built with it).Many stones from the churches/temples or castles were taken as nobody cared at some point.
Who actually constructed the aqueducts? Were they built by urban laborers brought to to construction site for the purpose, or were they built by locals, perhaps in the process of being "Romanized"?
Omg! I had to say this- my Mother’s last name was Justiniano. It is pretty rarely used nowadays. Beautiful synchronicity!!!
It has so much potential. I was there a few years ago and the guide/guard of the place told and showed us so much. You can find the most impressive, still intact, old capitels in the world and the most beautiful roman mosaics. If Ostia impresses you, this would blow your mind.
If only they finally restored it and finished it as a museum.........
It's a real gem!
I love your channels so much. Thank you for all the content.
Thanks for keeping your content asmr-friendly
Excellent presentation, thank you!
You definitely need a small drone for aerial shots that would be so useful in cases like this.
"The more the merrier..." Hah! Thanks for this, Dr. Ryan.
Rome is everwhere. It is around us. It is inside us. It was there long before us, and it will be there when we are long gone. Rome is forever. It is our past, our present and our future.
And I am high as fuck.
Everything you say is true for me and I am not high.
I adore these tour-guide videos! Were basilicas still being used for secular purposes in this period, or were they purely religious? 'Cause that's a lot of basilicas!
All of those were churches! The local priests were very busy
Wonderful information as per usual. Many thanks!
beautiful images as always
Gorgeous video and excellent job as always. It would be amazing if you could cover Alba Fucens (in modern day Abruzzo, Italy), explaining also the Italic wars and the Roman colonies system. It features also the stunning church of San Pietro in Albe (constructed in a former temple) and the alleged final resting place of Perseus, last king of Macedonia. Not to talk about the nearby Fucinus lake, that you already covered in one of your earlier works. Thanks for your excellent work!
I wish I could more fully envision what the city looked like in its prime.
Amazing
This is brilliant.
It's amazing to me how degraded these ruins are despite being so much younger than older ruins elsewhere. The construction materials look more coarse and the masonry appears to be a poorer quality than masonry in older parts of the Empire.
In addition to possibly poorer materials with which to work, much of the sixth century was fraught with difficulty for the people then living, with skewed climactic conditions (now believed to have been caused by vulcanism) and what was apparently the first outbreak of bubonic plague blighting much of Justinian's reign. The labor pool, and skilled labor, might have become attenuated.
Was the word basilica used only for religious structures at this time or were they also like older basilicae, having administrative uses?
Justiniana Prima, or in Serbian "Caričin grad"(City of Empress).
I just have a hard time seeing certain rocks as complete buildings and fields as cities.
If it was never completed, then are these ruins or the remnants of uncompleted buildings? I see lots of brick and stone, but no marble. Who lived there, or was supposed to live there? Where did they come from? How do we know the purpose of the buildings? There must have been some documentation that described the layout and the purpose of the structures.
Any sort of worked stone was valuable and tended to be moved and re-used to other locations.
Where have all the stones gone?
They were probably used to build new buildings and new towns somewhere else.
There were many Old West mining towns in the US in the 1800s.
These were 'Boomtowns' made mostly out of wood that would happen overnight when rich mine opened. When the ore was depleted the town died and became a 'Ghost Town'. The ghost towns were torn down and the wood was removed to be used in another "Boomtown', so all that is left are the stone foundations.
People took them to build homes.
That went on with even the churches in the Balkans(some mosques were built with it).Many stones from the churches/temples or castles were taken as nobody cared at some point.
Who actually constructed the aqueducts? Were they built by urban laborers brought to to construction site for the purpose, or were they built by locals, perhaps in the process of being "Romanized"?
gradili su ih vjerovatno većinom robovi i legionari a bilo je valjda i slobodnih ljudi majstora građevinara