Event: WEDS TALKS

ABSTRACT: The Odeion of Agrippa was among the first major Roman constructions in the city of Athens after years of spoliation. Despite an assemblage of "similar" buildings that the Romans constructed in the city, the Odeion of Agrippa stands out both spatially and architecturally. In 2024, I carried photogrammetric captures of the site to reconstruct how the building fit in the local topography and how it engaged in the surrounding architectural programming of the city. I argue that not only did Romans utilize architectural ornamentation to steer the city in a new direction, but they created a new space that enmeshed their own history with Athens' heroic past.

BIO: Luis Rodriguez-Perez is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. His research focuses on identity and architecture in early Roman Athens, applying 3D and other visualization methods.