You bring ancient Rome alive. I am going to look at all these features next time I am in the neighborhood.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You will also want to get a coffee at nearby St Eustachio!

@cynthiaschimelpfenig4242

2 жыл бұрын

@@AncientRomeLive Thanks for the tip! I am new to the area. Hope to run into you sometime!

Everyone goes inside, this is the best video about the exterior.

I have walked along the exterior of the Pantheon many times, but without all of the historic details to inform me. Thank you for bringing me back to this beautiful structure and teaching me even more! Appreciate all of your work to bring Rome alive to all of us around the world. Grazie Darius!

Youl’ll notice the square holes carved into the marble on the side of the transition block around the three minute mark. You’ll see this sort of thing on the Colosseum as well. These are sockets carved to receive wooden beams that would have supported the floors and roofs of buildings erected against the Pantheon in the Middle Ages and after. The history of how the city changed in the centuries leading up to the present day is pretty darn fascinating in its own right.

Great video! The outside of the temple is just as fascinating as the inside. Hope to visit it some day and take a look for myself.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

It’s so much fun to walk around this incredible building!

Although we were aware of the inside of the Pantheon before we went there, we approached it from the 'rear' and were astonished at the scale and details. Truly the best way to be introduced.

Excellent tour. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the mass of this structure and the lure of the interior to miss critical details on the exterior and the adjacent and abutting structures. Besides, there are few if any interpretive signage to help visitors navigate the palmpsest that is Rome. I understand that too much signage is a sensory assault but maybe some small QR codes would suffice to inform us curious lovers of ancient architecture.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

Just watch our videos ✌️

Roman Temples look so grand and nice.

Mea culpa! I missed all this when I visited the Pantheon. Too much in a rush to get inside. So, thank you.

Darius, it´s consistently great work that you do. Thank you so much for sharing all of this.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - and please share!

I'm watching this video in complete awe of this professor and his acute knowledge of Roman building design. I was there on a deployment and walked into the Pantheon... never fully appreciating this building.

Great video. Can't wait to get back there myself someday.

It is so nice to see it in the quiet less congested space that I experienced it from. Thank you for showing the details and talking about the outside of it as well and the spaces it occupies.

@AncientRomeLive

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Love your videos! I learn so much! If I had the money I would travel there myself. This is a great second option to actually traveling! One of the things I really like is seeing people that are just walking around going about their normal lives! We here in America look at Italy and Rome as some magical place and yet there are people that see it as everyday life. I love that!

@AncientRomeLive

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Wonderful. I'm so glad I took the opportunity to walk all the way behind and around in person when I was there. Great memory.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

👋👋👋

Undoubtedly this is a marvel of ancient Rome, normaly confusing with the Parthenon but for me is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World, very detailed video and explanation. thank you ery much.

Thank you Darius, I have been many times in front and inside of the Pantheon but have never walked around, big mistake.

I have to thank you for your contribution to keeping our history alive. One day, it will become more relevant than we know today.. By the by, you were good on Colosseum.

@AncientRomeLive

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

So cool! I visited Rome back in 2017 and stayed just around the corner at Hotel Minerva! I walked around this place every morning.

Can't wait ro revisit this monument when I get back to Rome. Thank you very much for this video, I'll see the monument differently.

Surprised that you skipped over the Fountain with so little comment; one of the best in Rome.

I’ve been there several times but have always been fixated on the front - the next time, I’m starting at the real and looking at all those things you pointed out! Gratzi!

What a great series! I was just watching “beneath the streets of ancient Rome“ on Wondrium and I thought the lecturer‘s name looked familiar 😄. Great work!

Are there any videos of how the Romans cut and polished their marble panels .???????

Great presentation. Thanks for the new, added perspectives!

Love this place. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you! I greatly appreciated!

Thank you for sharing this and taking the time to give us time to see all the details!

Thank you for this video. I'm hoping to visit Rome in July and this will be one of the first places I go. Una domanda: When you were talking about the grottoni, you said some of the bricks were modern. What century was this work done in? To a Roman historian, "modern" could be any time in the last five centuries.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

Haha good point - yes there are many interventions - over the past centuries ..

Very nice video. I did visit there several years ago and walked around the complete structure in amazement. In the back where you said it was the Basiillica of Neptune, was the street level that high back in the day? At 10:30 into the video, 2000 years ago, would I have seen that statue at eye level or above like today? Thank you again, enjoy your videos - very fascinating

Thanks, Darius! Is there a current book you would recommend that focuses in detail on the architecture, engineering, history, etc. of the Pantheon?

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing book on the Pantheon ed. By Mark Wilson Jones

@molonlabe77frodo

2 жыл бұрын

@@AncientRomeLive Grazie!

Fantastic, now please ,do 1 on a walk round of sorrento.😄

I wonder what happened to the poor guy who had to tell Hadrian and/or his architects that he had screwed up and couldn't produce granite columns of the length originally planned.

Great information

I don't care whether it was intended to be or not, but the Basilica has always looked to me like a structure built for the sole purpose of further supporting the Pantheon.

@AncientRomeLive

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, in part, built against the grottoni structure!

If there is one building you have to see in Rome' I'd say its this.

I would like to see what is behind of these small closed doors around Pantheon...

They say it's not about the size of your column, it's all about how you move your Mediterranean shipping 😉

@AncientRomeLive

Жыл бұрын

haha!

Are there steps leading up to the temple under the ground level level?

Thinking about the marble on the outside of the Pantheon makes me so mad

Are the columns in the front original or have they been refurbished/rebuilt? IE: Are they original to teh Pantheon and 2000+ years old?

@AncientRomeLive

Жыл бұрын

Left corner columns are replacements (3)

Does the City of Rome take care of that moss at the bottom of pantheon's wall? It can do a serious damage.

@AncientRomeLive

Жыл бұрын

We've seen that and more removed-- sometimes, before you know it there's a small shrub visible on the pediment.. They are periodically removed.

no more new videos?

@AncientRomeLive

Жыл бұрын

Rolling out one per week from now on!

If the Pantheon isnt a Solar Temple then why is there a hole in the middle of the roof to let the Sun shine in

square holes are there to hold metal pins for marble? what a chicken shit baloney .. These square holes are on every ancient building, from Rome to Peru to Baalbek to Turkey. This video clearly shows the square holes appeared after and defaced the original relief decorations. No one knows why these square holes are there all over the world. Surely not to hold metal pins or scaffolding logs

I cannot believe that this construction survived the stupidity of the human race and the Catholic church plundering all the ancient buildings .

@jeffreyhenion4818

Жыл бұрын

The reason this thing stands at all is because it has been a church since 609 CE. Without that, time and lime-burners would have taken the porch and any useful marble. History is a funny ol’ thing.

Why are locals wearing masks OUTSIDE ?

@solinvictus39

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you can't fix stupid.

@ariefakmalmuhammadzulkifli7662

6 ай бұрын

It was covid 19 that time, are you living under a rock in cave?