Anatolian Civilizations and Historical Sites - TEDA

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built in the name of gods, temples were also built for the deified
Roman empires or some of them were used for this purpose. The
Temple of Traianus in Bergama and the Temple of Augustus in
Ankara are the examples we encounter. Mostly the Corinthian order
seems to have been used in Roman temples. During this period, the
temples had three sections made up of a podium, which would be
accessed by stairs, a front courtyard and a cella. The Temple of
Dionysos, Pergamon is the best example for of this.
The most beautiful novelty that Roman architecture formed in
urbanization was the technique of constructing columned roads.
Shops and houses were lined up behind the galleries lying on both
sides, and the top of the galleries were covered to protect the
people from heat or from getting wet. Ephesos Arkadiane, Perge,
Xanthos and Patara are the most beautiful examples of the
columned streets in Anatolia.
In cities, which had an advanced social level and which were
enriched, arches and sculptures were placed on the columned
streets, and magnificent gates were erected at points where these
streets intersected. They were built not only at points where two
streets intersected, but also at points where three or four roads
intersected. The most spectacular of these gates is the Tetrapylon
in Aphrodisias which has been re-erected today. Triumphal
monuments-typical Roman structures-are not seen much in
Anatolia. Vaulted structures seen in Antalya, Perge and Patara are
not triumphal monuments but mere city gates.
Besides the great stone bridges of Rome, aqueducts-which were
constructed for bringing water to the city and the baths-are also a
style of structure peculiar to Rome. The most spectacular example
of this is seen in Side and Aspendos.
Bath buildings constructed in almost every Roman city took up an
important part of the social life of this period. Baths, where long
conversations were enjoyed, were based on a system of warming
with hot air coming from the boiler below the floor through the
holed bricks, which was an invention of around 80 BC. Romans, who
valued baths very much, did not withhold from adorning their walls
with sculptures and their floors with mosaics. The bath, which
Faustina-the wife of Marcus Aurelius (l61-180)-commissioned to be
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