Domus Aurea Research Paper

Domus Aurea From The Eyes of A Slave
I went from being a shop owner to being a slave in the Roman the town I lived in. Becoming a slave changed how I viewed life. When I was a shop owner, I had a feeling of accomplishment, but now, I cry myself to sleep as I was constantly in pain. I usually was a slave for a Roman shop owner carrying out the everyday business transactions, but after the Roman city of Rome burned down, I was put in a group of other slaves whose sole purpose was to be unskilled labor for the construction of Domus Aurea or “The Golden House," (Anderson 1997 52) for the Roman emperor Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus (Adkins 1994 21) who we normally refer to as “Nero.” Once I was put into this group of slaves, I experienced many beatings and had to do a lot of grueling work (Anderson 1997 124). My main job was to assist another slave who was a bricklayer. I had to haul the bricks up the Palatine hill along with having to carry the cement and bricks up the shaky ladder to another slave who was a bricklayer.
The walls of the Domus Aurea were considered to be done in the style of opus testaceum which involved having a
The only thing that was reused in a way was the retaining walls on the hills (Ball 2003 8). The Esquiline Wing of the Domus Aurea was located northeast of the main buildings and sat on top of the Esquiline hill (Ball 2003 3). The Esquiline Wing was built detached and away from the main complex and was the farthest from the Tiber River, where the bricks were brought in (Ball 2003 5) (Ball 2003 7). The Esquiline Wing had over 150 rooms, which we were told by the architect (Ball 2003 7). Since the great fire burned down the previous structures, we ended up building on top of the remains (Ball 2003