Rome

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M. A. R. Tuker. Rome

Rome

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

ROME

CHAPTER II

ROMAN BUILDING AND DECORATION

CHAPTER III

THE ROMAN CATACOMBS

CHAPTER IV

ROMAN REGIONS AND GUILDS

CHAPTER V

THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA

CHAPTER VI

THE ROMAN MÉNAGE

CHAPTER VII

THE ROMAN PEOPLE

CHAPTER VIII

ROMAN PRINCELY FAMILIES

CHAPTER IX

ROMAN RELIGION

CHAPTER X

THE ROMAN CARDINAL

CHAPTER XI

ROME BEFORE 1870

CHAPTER XII

THE ROMAN QUESTION

Index

Footnote

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Hope Malleson, M. A. R. Tuker

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The streets of the city were paved, and beyond the walls the immense Appian causeway crossed the Pontine marshes and stretched onwards towards Brindisi and the east.

In the forty years following Rome was transformed. There arose in the Campus Martius, the Pantheon with the baths and aqueduct of Agrippa, the portico of Octavia dedicated by Augustus to his sister, the theatre of Marcellus and the great mausoleum where the emperor and his kindred were to lie, and which, almost smothered in poor houses, has in modern times served the ignoble offices of a bull-ring and a third-rate theatre. Temples were restored, the Basilica Julia was completed, another Forum built with the temple of Mars Ultor in its midst. Upon the site of Augustus' birthplace on the Palatine hill a great palace was raised by himself and Tiberius, and this district of Rome became henceforth the abode of the Caesars.

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