The ancient city of Rome, its layout and hills.
Rome is the capital city of Italy and in ancient times, of the Roman Empire.
The Scalae Gemoniae are the Gemonian Stairs.
Here are some of the names and synonyms for Rome.
Rome started as a small community centered on 7 hills by the Tiber River. Rome is the name of a city and the name of the great ancient power that spread as an empire through western Europe, into the Middle East and northern Africa. Rome was the capital of this empire until around the time the empire split. From then on, the capital(s) were elsewhere, most notably, Constantinople.
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The pomoerium was originally an area circling the inhabited area of the city of Rome.
Many people in ancient Rome lived in an insula.
The Lacus Curtius is located in the Roman Forum and is named for a Sabine named Curtius.
Pictures of the remains of ancient monuments in the Roman forum.
The Colosseum is also known as the Flavian Amphitheater. The Colosseum is a large sports arena.
Profile of the Roman Forum: the Roman forum or Forum Romanum, by the Capitoline Hill, was the center of life in ancient Rome.
Rome was founded, according to the most common founding legend, by Romulus, the eponymus son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin.
The cloaca maxima was the sewer system built in the sixth or seventh century B.C., by one of the kings of Rome -- probably Tarquinius Priscus, although Livy attributes it to Tarquin the Proud -- to drain the marshes in the valleys between the hills into the Tiber River.
The Servian Wall that surrounded the city of Rome was supposedly built by the Roman king Servius Tullius in the 6th century B.C.
Glossary entry on the Roman Forum. The Forum Romanum was located in the area between the Palatine and Capitoline that was surrounded with temples and public buildings.
The fora (forums) were public squares and places for business. They included fish and vegetable markets.
The curia was part of the political center of Roman life, the Roman forum's comitium, which was at the time a rectangular space mostly aligned with the cardinal points, with the curia to the north.
The Tiber River is the main river of Rome.
Monuments of the seven hills of Ancient Rome.
Saepta was the voting precinct in the campus Martius.
The Campus Martius is the level ground between the slopes of the Capitoline, the Quirinal, and the Pincian hills, and the Tiber.
