because after Constantine/Diocletian , the Romans interest in Rome seems to decline, preferring Constantinople and even a provincial city like Ravenna... whyy?
The Pantheon and Colloseum are impressive, but don't really convey a coherent grand design in their current contexts. Would ancient Rome have wowed us with the scale of it's designs and buildings? Or were the impressive buildings generally stands alone works surrounded by smaller, less grand structures?
Were the buildings set off from other things, the way the Jefferson or Lincoln memorials are the the US?
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Poisons I, II, and III would all kill you with varying degrees of pain.
However, Poison IV would just make you really itchy.
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