The Palace of the Emperor Titus was completed in 81 AD by the architect Rabirius.[footnoteRef:2] Located on the greater part of Esquiline Hill, the Baths of Titus (named the Palace of Titus by Pliny) extended from the “based of the Esquiline Hill near the Coliseum to one of its summits at the Church of SS. Martino e Silvestro, and to another at S. Pietro in Vincoli.”[footnoteRef:3] It is believed that the Palace was built rather quickly by converting an existing structure into the Baths.[footnoteRef:4] The Palace used the house of Mecenas and the Golden House of Nero which had come across from Palatine Hill as part of the construction that existed to make the Palace. There were “nine long corridors, converging together like the radii of the segment of a circle, divided from each other by dead walls, covered at the top and closed at the end” according to one 19th century visitor of the Palace’s ruins.[footnoteRef:5] The Palace was used a baths house but its ornate style and size prompted Pliny to call it a Palace. Suetonius mentions that the Palace was quickly built to coincide with the opening of the Flavian amphitheatre.[footnoteRef:6] The Palace also housed murals by Fabulus. [2: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum Tit.6.1.3; Spivey, Nigel, Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude. Berkely, Univeristy of California Press, 2001, 26; Darwall-Smith, Robin Haydon. Emperors and Architecture: A Study of Flavian Rome. Brussels: Latomus Revue D\\'Etudes Latines, 1996; The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. XI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.] [3: Parker, John William,...
73; Pliny, The Natural History, John Bostock, ed., chapter 4.4.] [4: Sear, Frank, Roman Architecture, Cornell University Press, 1983, 145.] [5: Parker, 74.] [6: Suetonius, Divus Titus, Alexander Thomson, ed., Tit. 7.]
The Palace of the Emperor Titus was completed in 81 AD by the architect Rabirius.[footnoteRef:2] Located on the greater part of Esquiline Hill, the Baths of Titus (named the Palace of Titus by Pliny) extended from the “based of the Esquiline Hill near the Coliseum to one of its summits at the Church of SS. Martino e Silvestro, and to another at S. Pietro in Vincoli.”[footnoteRef:3] It is believed that
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