Dr. Tyler Lansford, University of Colorado at Boulder: Capitolium: Rome's Capitoline Hill from Antiquity to Modern Times
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
7 pm
Canyon Theatre, Boulder Public Library
1001 Arapahoe Avenue
The Capitoline Hill is in every sense the heart of Rome. Geologically, its modest eminence forms a stage to the natural amphitheater of the City’s hills; and although the neighboring Palatine Hill acquired precedence in legend as the site of Rome’s founding by Romulus, it is the Capitoline that has yielded the oldest archeological finds on the city’s site. For the ancient Romans, this was a sacred citadel: crowned by the colossal temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, it formed the terminus of those spectacular triumphal processions by which the Empire advertised her irresistible might. Abandoned in the Dark Ages, the hill became home to a famous medieval church – the basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli – and to a celebrated Renaissance piazza – the Piazza del Campidoglio of Michelangelo. In this illustrated talk, classicist Tyler Lansford explores the vicissitudes of the Capitoline Hill from antiquity to modern times.
This free public lecture is presented by the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and supported by a generous contribution by Mary E.V. McClanahan.
7 pm
Canyon Theatre, Boulder Public Library
1001 Arapahoe Avenue
The Capitoline Hill is in every sense the heart of Rome. Geologically, its modest eminence forms a stage to the natural amphitheater of the City’s hills; and although the neighboring Palatine Hill acquired precedence in legend as the site of Rome’s founding by Romulus, it is the Capitoline that has yielded the oldest archeological finds on the city’s site. For the ancient Romans, this was a sacred citadel: crowned by the colossal temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, it formed the terminus of those spectacular triumphal processions by which the Empire advertised her irresistible might. Abandoned in the Dark Ages, the hill became home to a famous medieval church – the basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli – and to a celebrated Renaissance piazza – the Piazza del Campidoglio of Michelangelo. In this illustrated talk, classicist Tyler Lansford explores the vicissitudes of the Capitoline Hill from antiquity to modern times.
This free public lecture is presented by the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and supported by a generous contribution by Mary E.V. McClanahan.
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