The Palace of the Emperor Titus
up with the some of the ancient materials used to construct the Palace.[footnoteRef:7] [7: Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire, Little Brown & Company, 1854, 323.] Titus used myth and symbolism to control his subjects by communicating stories that had moral elements that his subjects could apply to their own lives. For example, the Palace of Titus housed the Laocoon statue which depicts the story of Laocoon, a priest from Troy, who was killed along with his sons when they tried to show that the Greeks’ Trojan Horse was a trick by piercing the horse with a spear. They were attacked by snakes, and that is… Continue Reading...