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April 13, 2010
Nero's Golden House - disastrous collapse
I really have been too busy - I missed the news article and seeing the link at a blog I usually read daily! Via Cronaca I learn that a big chunk of the Domus Aurea, Nero's Golden House, collapsed! Yikes!
The Domus Aurea is almost entirely buried under a later bath (now a public park on the Oppian Hill - it overlooks the Colosseum). It looks like some of the grassy park just slid into the open palace below like a sink hole.
Lucky for my students - I don't take them there any more. It's far too hard on site to actually understand what it was like because the space was relentlessly broken up by the reinforcing walls designed to hold up that later bathhouse - the Golden House just doesn't make any sense from the inside. You can stand over at the Forum end of the Colosseum and get about as much out of it.
Still, not a good thing.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 13, 2010 7:08 AM