{"id":639,"date":"2010-10-01T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T08:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-08-21T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:26:46","slug":"ancient-roman-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/ancient-roman-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Roman Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Milliarium Aureum<\/strong>means \u201cgolden milestone\u201d in Latin. The Milliarium Aureum was a monument built by Augustus. From this monument comes the term \u201call roads lead to Rome\u201d, because the Romans believed that all roads could be traced to this monument. Ancient Roman roads were study. In fact, we still use those roads today.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Via Aemilia <\/strong>was named after Roman consul <strong>Marcus Aemilius Lepidus<\/strong>. It\u2019s a major road that bordered Gaul and Rome. Through this road, the ancient Romans were able to conquer Gallic and Celtic tribes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Via Appia<\/strong> was named after a man named <strong>Appius Claudius Caecus<\/strong>. The Via Appia is one of the oldest roads in Rome. It was because of this road that made it possible for the Roman army to send troops and military tribes to warring areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Via Flaminia<\/strong> was named after consul <strong>Gaius Flaminius<\/strong>. The Via Flaminia was a major road because this road transported wheat to the Roman provinces. This Road was the site of many battles, because this road led directly to the city of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"234\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/10\/Carsulae-San-Damiano-234x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/10\/Carsulae-San-Damiano-234x350.jpg 234w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/10\/Carsulae-San-Damiano.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><p>Milliarium Aureummeans \u201cgolden milestone\u201d in Latin. The Milliarium Aureum was a monument built by Augustus. From this monument comes the term \u201call roads lead to Rome\u201d, because the Romans believed that all roads could be traced to this monument. Ancient Roman roads were study. In fact, we still use those roads today. The Via Aemilia&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/ancient-roman-roads\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}