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According to early Roman histories, when the Sabine ruler Titus Tatius attacked Rome after the Rape of the Sabines (8th century BC), the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill, betrayed the Romans by opening the city gates for the Sabines in return for 'what they bore on their arms.' She believed that she would receive their golden bracelets. Instead, the Sabines crushed her to death with their shields, and her body was buried in the rock that now bears her name.[2]
About 500 BC, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh legendary king of Rome, leveled the top of the rock, removing the shrines built by the Sabines, and built the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus on the intermontium - the area between the two summits of the hill. The rock itself survived this remodelling, being used for executions well into Sulla's time[3] (early 1st century BC).
Note the Latin phrase, Arx tarpeia Capitoli proxima ("The Tarpeian Rock is close to the Capitol"): one's fall from grace can come swiftly.
To be hurled off the Tarpeian Rock was, in some sense, a fate worse than death, because it carried with it a stigma of shame. The standard method of execution in ancient Rome was by strangulation in the Tullianum. Rather, the rock was reserved for the most notorious traitors, and as a place of unofficial, extra-legal executions (for example, the near-execution of then-Senator Gaius Marcius
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 10y agoI do not understand what you mean by road ballast. Ballast is used for railway sleepers, not roads.
The Romans did not need to crush rocks to fill the road bed of the stone-paved roads.
For the stone-paved roads the Romans dug the road bed down to the firmest level of ground or to the bedrock. Large amounts of materials found locally were used to fill the ditch up to one metre to the surface. This was then covered with gravel which was compressed to create a flat surface. The next layer was coarse concrete. Finally the stone slabs were embedded in fine concrete. There was no ballast.
A mentioned, the Romans used local materials for the fill of the road beds for their stone-paved roads; rubble, gravel, stone, or sand, whatever was available. Their favourite fill was sand, but this was often not available. Gravel comes in small rock fragments commonly found around rivers and on beeches. Rubble is rock fragments in irregular shapes and size which are bigger than those of gravel, but do not need to be crushed. It could be easily obtained from brash soil or from the leftovers of quarrying. Small stones could be found easily, again, around rivers and on beeches or from leftover of quarrying.
Note that not all Roman roads were stone-paved roads. Only 20% of the road network of the Roman Empire was thestone-paved roads (via munita). The majority of their roads were earthen roads with a gravelled surface (via glareata) or plain earthed roads (via terrena). The amount of materials they needed for the stone-paved roads was not sufficient to require industrial production of rubble. Therefore, there was no need for quarrying rock for the purpose of crushing it.
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∙ 11y agoThe Romans used rock for there buildings
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