The exhibition itinerary
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Section 5
The Column’s architect: Apollodorus of Damascus
Apollodorus was the most famous architect of antiquity. Of Syrian origin, he was born in Damascus in a Nabatean family and had taken the name Apollodorus, which was fairly common in the Hellenistic world. As Trajan’s architect, he transformed the appearance of Rome, where literary sources and archeological investigations have attributed monuments and celebratory buildings to him. Apollodorus designed a bridge on the Danube to which he devoted a now-lost treatise. In Rome, he built the Forum complex with the Basilica Ulpia and Trajan’s baths; the spectacular Markets building; and the two Libraries on either side of the Column.