Los Auditoria de Adriano y el Athenaeum de Roma

• Format: eBook
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2015
• Series: Premio Tesi di Dottorato
• Subjects: 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499; 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599; 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699; 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999; History of architecture; History of art; Medieval style
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 In 2007, during the archaeological excavations for the construction of a metro station in Piazza Venezia in Rome, two auditoriums dating back to the first half of the 2nd century AD appeared; various archaeologists identified them as part of the Athenaeum founded by Hadrian, the first great Roman academic institution mentioned in the classical sources. This book is the result of an exhaustive analysis through topography, architecture and philology, in the attempt to reveal the functionality of the structures, which could have been part of the Athenaeum or perhaps of a judicial institution integrated into the set of courts of the Trajan's Forum.