Tag: Romes

The site of the Colosseum (the original name of which was the Flavian Amphitheatre), is in a valley between three of the Roman “hills”, the area having previously been a small lake that formed part of the grounds of Nero’s vast palace (which was destroyed after his death). The plan...

The Appian Way, or Via Appia, was one of the first highways in the world. Built at the height of the Roman Republic, it connected Rome to the less integrated south of the peninsula. Central to the functioning of the Republic, the road was given the moniker Regina Viarum, or Queen of Roads. ...

Somehow, the penultimate emperor, Julius Nepos, appointed Orestes Flavius as “magister militum,” effectively the commander-in-chief. Orestes consulted with the soldiers and decided that the emperor was unsuitable for the people, so he needed to be overthrown and replaced with a more auth...