Location: Paestum
Date: c. 100-50 BC
Details: The amphitheater at Paestum was built in the mid-late first century BC, making it one of the earliest extant Roman amphitheaters, and reflects the growing popularity of these structures in the late…
Location: Rome
Date: 271-275 AD
Details: These fortifications replaced the fourth century BC "Servian Walls." Built by the emperor Aurelian in the late third century AD, the walls ran in a 12 mile circuit around the city and included regular…
Location: Paestum
Date: second half of the second century BC
Details: In 273, the Romans established a Latin colony at Paestum. (The city was originally called Poseidonia by its Greek inhabitants.)
Location: Rome
Date: Most of the present church was built in 1140-1143 by Pope Innocent II atop a fourth century basilica (which in turn went back to a third century house-church). The mosaics in the apse date from the 12th and 13th centuries.…