Po redaktohet Domitian (paragraf)

==== Palaces, villas, and other major buildings ====

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 | footer      = "Gate of Domitian and [[Trajan]]" at the northern entrance of the [[Dendera Temple complex|Temple of Hathor]], and Domitian as Pharaoh on the same gate, in [[Dendera]], [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bard |first1=Kathryn A. |title=Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-66525-9 |pages=252–254 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AWSGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bard |first1=Kathryn A. |title=An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt |date=2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-67336-2 |page=325 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovU1BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA325 |language=en}}</ref>
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For his personal use, he was active in constructing many monumental buildings, including the [[Villa of Domitian]], a vast and sumptuous palace situated 20&nbsp;km outside Rome in the Alban Hills. In Rome itself, he built the [[Palace of Domitian]] on the [[Palatine Hill]]. Seven other villas are linked with Domitian at [[Tusculum]], [[Antium]], [[Villa of Domitian (Sabaudia)|Sabaudia]], [[Imperial Villa of Vicarello|Vicarello]], [[Caieta (city)|Caieta]], [[Terracina]]<ref>Martial V 1</ref> and [[Baiae]].<ref>Martial IV 30</ref> Only that at Sabaudia has been positively identified.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Darwall-Smith |first=Robin |date=1994 |title=Albanum and the villas of Domitian |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/palla.1994.1315 |journal=Pallas |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=145–165 |doi=10.3406/palla.1994.1315 |issn=0031-0387}}</ref>

The [[Stadium of Domitian]] was dedicated in 86 AD as a gift to the people of Rome as part of an Imperial building program, following the damage or destruction of most of the buildings on the Field of Mars by fire in 79 AD. It was Rome's first permanent venue for competitive athletics, and is today occupied by the [[Piazza Navona]].<ref>{{cite book | first=Leland M. | last=Roth | year=1993 | title=Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning | edition=First | publisher=Westview Press | location=Boulder, CO | isbn=0-06-430158-3 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/understandingarc00roth/page/233 233] | url=https://archive.org/details/understandingarc00roth/page/233 }}</ref> In Egypt too, Domitian was quite active in constructing buildings and decorating them. He appears, together with [[Trajan]], in offering scenes on the propylon of the [[Dendera Temple complex|Temple of Hathor]] at [[Dendera]]. His [[cartouche]] also appears in the column shafts of the Temple of [[Khnum]] at [[Esna]].<ref name="PAS">"Trajan was, in fact, quite active in Egypt. Separate scenes of Domitian and Trajan making offerings to the gods appear on reliefs on the propylon of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. There are cartouches of Domitian and Trajan on the column shafts of the Temple of Knum at Esna, and on the exterior a frieze text mentions Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian"  {{cite book |last1=Stadter |first1=Philip A. |last2=Stockt |first2=L. Van der |title=Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98–117 A.D.) |date=2002 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-5867-239-1 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJjiYdxHmPMC&pg=PA75 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[[:File:Esna Tempel 36.jpg|Domitian relief in Esna]]</ref>