Rome - 1 Author:Walter Taylor Field Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: B. Johnson Ince, Ltd. Subjects: Rome (Italy) Rome (City) History / General History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Italy Travel / Europe / Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustr... more »ations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. ALONG THE TIBER ? FTER a good night's rest and the usual Continental breakfast of coffee and rolls, to which you have probably by this time accustomed yourself, and upon which you can now do a half-day's sightseeing, we return to the Piazza Montanara which we left last night on completing our survey of the Campus Mar- tius. We will now follow the course of the Tiber south of the point where it approaches the Capitoline Hill, and will pass into the commercial quarter of ancient Rome, which lined the river from the vegetable market to the Ostian Gate. Not far from the vegetable market we enter what was in olden times the cattle market, or Forum Boarium, and find before us that little round temple which is so variously named and so beautiful by whatever designation. With its red-tiled roof and its circle of nineteen creamy Corinthian columns, mellowed by as many centuries, it has become a favourite study for artists, and you will find in the Roman shop windows frequent representations of it. It was long called the Temple of Vesta, and later the Round Temple of Hercules. Lanciani and other recent authorities have identified it as the Temple of Mater Matuta, an old Italic goddess of the dawn, whose shrine is mentioned by Livy as being here in the cattle market. It was built probably during the Augustan era, upon the foundations of an earlier temple which dated from the time of Servius. Before this temple stan...« less