Some Major Features of the Topography of Rome

The Seven Hills

Palatine (1st center of Rome; home of wealthy in Republic, then of emperors)
Capitoline (temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on its top; carcer on its slopes)
Esquiline
Quirinal
Viminal
Aventine
Caelian

Forum: center of civic and commercial life: buildings included

Temple of Vesta
Temple of Castor and Pollux
Temple of Jupiter Stator
Basilicas
Sacra Via starts here and runs to Alba Longa

Colosseum (also called the Flavian Amphitheater): built 80 AD, under emperor Titus

Circus Maximus

Fora of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nerva, Trajan

Campus Martius: area outside of city walls where voting took place; monuments included:

Pantheon
Mausoleum of Augustus
Ara Pacis

Baths of Trajan, Caracalla, Diocletian

Cloaca Maxima

Theater of Pompey: Rome’s 1st stone theatre, built 55 BC

Appian Way: leads out of Rome to Brundisium

Aqua Appia: 1st major aqueduct (built 312 BC)

Last Update: May 22, 2002

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