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Trajan's Forum again: the Column and the Temple of Trajan in the master plan attributed to Apollodorus(?)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

James E. Packer*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Evanston

Abstract

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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 1994

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Footnotes

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Dio Cassius 69.4, 1-6; Proc., Aed. 4.6, 13. MacdonaldW.The architecture of the Roman empire (2nd ed.,New Haven1982) 1, 129-36, discusses the passage in Dio and gives a full bibliography on Apollodorus up to 1965. MacDonald's “Roman architects,” in KostofS. (ed.), The architect. Chapters in the history of the profession (New York1977) 44–51, and “Apollodorus,” Macmillan encyclopedia of architects (New York 1982) 1, 91-94, update this earlier essay. LepperF. and FrereS., Trajan's column (Gloucester1988) 187-93 review the evidence for attributing the design of the Forum of Trajan to Apollodorus.

References

1 Dio Cassius 69.4, 1-6; Proc., Aed. 4.6, 13. Macdonald, W. The architecture of the Roman empire (2nd ed., New Haven 1982) 1, 129-36Google Scholar, discusses the passage in Dio and gives a full bibliography on Apollodorus up to 1965. MacDonald's “Roman architects,” in Kostof, S. (ed.), The architect. Chapters in the history of the profession (New York 1977) 4451 Google Scholar, and “Apollodorus,” Macmillan encyclopedia of architects (New York 1982) 1, 91-94, update this earlier essay. Lepper, F. and Frere, S., Trajan's column (Gloucester 1988) 187-93Google Scholar review the evidence for attributing the design of the Forum of Trajan to Apollodorus.