The forum Romanum: the area destined to be the Great Forum of Rome was once a swamp surrounded by hill. Inhabitants from the hills gradually moved onto the edges of the swamp, using it for burials and shrines.Fitts, R. Leon
Today, the ruins of the ancient Forum in Rome is one of the world's premier tourist sites. The location features raised walkways and other paths that allow you to explore amidst the ruins while preserving the area. The Forum is located inthe modern-day city of Rome, Italy, near the ruins...
Last, largest, and most splendid of the early imperial forums, the Forum of Trajan (A.D. 112) was the acknowledged showplace of ancient Rome. Ammianus Marcellinus called the Forum 'a construction unique under the heavens, as we believe, and admirable even in the unanimous opinion of the go...
The Forum was the original downtown of Rome, a former swampland drained by the world's first great city sewer and then filled with temples, government buildings, markets, and the hubbub of the early Roman Republic. The Forum today? Several cracked, fluted columns pick out the corner or side...
Temples, Altars, and the Center of Rome There were various other shrines and temples in the forum, including anAltar of Victoryin the senate, a Temple of Concord, the imposingTemple of Castor and Pollux, and on the Capitoline, theTemple of Saturn, which was the site of the Republican Roma...
Some of the Imperial Fori—the Forum of Caesar in the foreground, with the brick curve of Trajan's Markets in the background and, to the right of that, a bit of the Forum of Augustus. (Photo by Wally Argo) TheFori Imperialirepresent Rome's first major urban expansion of public areas...
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Rome had the Forum. London has Speaker's Corner. Now always–on–the-go. New Yorkers have Liz and Bill.Liz and Bill, two college graduates in their early 20s, have spent a whole year trying to have thousands of people talk to them in subway stations and
The columns of the Basilica Ulpia backed by Trajan's Column (and a pair of baroque church domes) in the Forum of Trajan, part of Rome's Imperial Fori. (Photo by Bgabel)The Forum of Trajan's is home to Trajan's Column, a massive carved marble comic strip of the emperors ...
The Forum of Augustus, part of the Fori Imperiali in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Cassius Ahenobarbus)The Foro di Augusto was built by Augustus CaesarThe "Augustus 2000" sound and light show at the Foro di Augusto. (Photo courtesy of Musei In Comune di Roma)...