Celer

Japanese: Celer
Celer

…Although all of the ancient Greek architectural works have been lost, the outline of their contents has been preserved to this day in a ten-volume treatise on architecture written around 30 BCE by the Roman architect Vitruvius, who was a 1st-century BCE architect. The three architects who served the tyrant Nero, Severus, Celer, and Rabirius, were known for their free and original ideas, and Apollodorus of Damascus, who served the emperors Trajan and Hadrian, was perhaps the greatest architect of the Roman Empire. Emperor Hadrian was himself a great architect, and is considered the actual designer of the Pantheon, the Temple of Venus and Rome, and Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana) at Tivoli. …

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Japanese:

…古代ギリシアの建築書はすべて失われてしまっているが,それらの内容の大要は,前1世紀のローマの建築家ウィトルウィウスが前30年ころに書いた10巻の建築書によって,今日まで伝えられている。暴君ネロに仕えた3人の建築家,セウェルスSeverus,ケレルCeler,ラビリウスRabiriusは,自在かつ独創的なアイデアで知られ,トラヤヌス帝とハドリアヌス帝に仕えたダマスクスのアポロドロスは,おそらくローマ帝国時代最大の建築家であった。ハドリアヌス帝は,みずからもすぐれた建築家であって,ローマのパンテオン,〈ウェヌスとローマの神殿〉,ティボリのハドリアヌスの別荘(ビラ・アドリアーナ)などの実質上の設計者と見なされている。…

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