Julian Barnett
Hidden Rome, Part 1: ‘Rome was not Built in a Day’: Obscure Corners Within Ancient Pagan Rome
Summary
Following on from his series of Hidden Jerusalem, Hidden Cairo and Hidden Oxford, Julian next takes us to Rome. The Colosseum, Pantheon and Forum are known by all, but today Julian shows us glorious photographs of other parts of Republican and Imperial Rome that tourists seldom get to see.
Julian Barnett
Julian Barnett is a teacher, collector, tour guide, and writer with a specialist interest in ultra-orthodoxy within the various faiths. For the last 35 years, he has been investigating and documenting the most extreme sects of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. His experiences and travels were serialized in the Jerusalem Report and also broadcast on BBC Radio Four Religion. Outside of his full-time history teaching post at Southbank International School, Portland Place, London, Julian lectures at numerous venues around the UK and beyond. In 2013 Julian was a joint winner of the National Teacher of the Year Award.
They restore it. But actually the marble floor has been replaced quite a lot of times. But the walls and the roof are original. There was mentioned the BBC recently of lumps of chalk being the secret ingredient of Roman concrete. The theory being that it leeches into cracks as their repaired.
Each senator served a year. They were appointed when each new, no, sorry. Yes, they each served a year. They were appointed when each new consul was appointed and prelates were appointed. But it changed. With an institution 1,000 years going, all those walls of the Senate changed as it developed. And whenever we were there, we just walked into the Senate.
I don’t know that answer. That’s another question I don’t know. The earliest date found. Well I would think actually from the period of the Roman Kings. So there are some dates on some of the buildings in 600 BC, actually, BCE, there are some dates from 600 BC. So yes, pre-Republican Rome, yes.