The whole temple is raised, and as Augustus loved to cover everything with marble it too had a marble fazade. ... Augustus' love of marble was displayed prominently in his forum, as well as everywhere else he could get his hands on. The temple to Mars Ultor had a white marble exterior fazade and an elegant colored marble interior. ... Among other things, Ricci found that the inscribed marble stones that should have been underneath the niches for the Summi Viri in the exedrae telling who they were and what they did, were missing. ... One was now part of the collection in the Vatican, i...

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More upper class buildings that were one to two stories high were made of marble and gannet while more frequented buildings like the Gladiator school was made from concrete with brick-siding. ... The film does not show social and class structure well since it is a conflict between slaves and the upper class - so black and white a comparison of classes that it actually isn't valid. ...

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Other material that were used to make this construction happen were tiles for the floor, bricks for the walls, marble, metal, wood, and pipes that were made out of lead for the sewer system. ... The White House looks like a structure from Ancient Rome. ...

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