Nero’s Rotating Dining Room
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Nero’s Rotating Dining Room
08.19.2016
"The main dining table, which was round, rotated night and day, imitating the motions of the globe." The surprising construction mentioned by Suetonius in his biography of Nero has been found. On Palatine Hill (Rome), a Franco-Italian team of archaeologists discovered remains of a mechanism that could have allowed the rotation of the floor of the main dining room of the Domus Aurea—Nero's vast imperial palace.
About this video
Original title:
Nero's folly
Production year:
2014
Length:
10 min 20
Director:
Paul Rambaud
Producer:
CNRS Images
Speaker(s) :
Françoise Villedieu, Centre Camille-Jullian (CNRS/Univ. Aix-Marseille)