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Architectural History of the City of Rome abridged from J.H. Parker's Archaeology of Rome

Author: Arthur Shadwell
Editor: Parker and Co.
Year:
1883

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CONTENTS

-Of the Material Used in Building at -Rome, and of the Various Styles of -Construction
-Modes of Construction
-Roma Quadrata
-The City on the Two Hills
-The Fortification on the other Five Hills. and on the Heights Adjacent
-The City on the Seven Hills Within one Enclosure
-The Agger of Tarquinius the Second
-Later Fortifications
-The Walls of Aurelian and Honorius
-The Streets and Roads
-The Aqueducts
-The Thermae
-Forum Romanum
-The Mamertine Prison
-The Mausolea and Tombs of Rome
-The Colosseum, or Flavian -Amphiteatre
-Palaces of the Caesars