Rome: Republic + Empire


Palestrina (Praeneste), Sanctuary of Fortuna, C. 80 B.C.E. (reconstruction drawing)

Rome: Founded 753 B.C.E., Romulus
       Republic c. 509-31 B.C.E. (map of Republican Rome)
       Empire 31 B.C.-5th century A.D. (map of Imperial Rome)
       Tiber River
                     (forum plan; reconstruction; Basilica Julia)
       Forum -- Cloaca Maxima, Tabularium, basilica, Rostra, Curia
       Temples -- Fortuna Virilis (2nd C. B.C.E) (Fortuna Virilis; cf. Etruscan temple)
       Districts -- Capitoline, Palatine, Suburra, Trastevere, Campus Martius 
                     (plan of late Republican & early Imperial Rome; plan of roads and aqueducts    
                     leading into Rome; view of Palatine)
       Imperial Fora -- Caesar (46 B.C.E.), Augustus, Nerva, Vespasian,
                     Trajan (Caesar’s Forum plan, reconstruction; Forum of Augustus;
                     Plan of Imperial Fora; Trajan’s Market reconstruction, market hall)
   Baths -- Caracalla, c. 210 A.D. (plan; view)
   Insula (reconstruction model) 

 

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