Eternal Rome Volume I Author:Grant Showerman ETERNAL ROME THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY BY GRANT SHOWERMAN OF CLASSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN DIEECTOE Of THE SUMMER 8K8SION, THK AMERICAN ACADEMY IN HOME TOLUME I F OM EARLIEST LATIUM TO THE FIFTH CHRISTIAN CENTURY FRAOMKNT8 OF TUB ACQITA CLAUDIA NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON HUMFHEKY MIL... more »FOttI - OXFOED UNIVKESITY FEKSS M DCCCC XXIV FRANZ CUMONT GEORGE LINCOLN HENDRICKSON ET MIIII ET INTER SE AMICIS OF VOLUME I FROM EARLIEST LATIUM TO THE FIFTH CHRISTIAN CENTURY List of Illustrations ix I. Earliest Latium 1 1 . The Land of Latium 3 2. The Earliest Men of Latium 8 1L Earliest Rome 19 1. The Tiber and the Seven Hills 21 2. Earliest Homo and the Poets 24 3. Earliest Rome and the Critic 82 4. The Romans and Home in TarqiuVs Time 43 II L The Republic 51 1. Sovereignty and Citizenship 53 2. The City of Cato 66 3. The Citizen-soldier of Rome 76 IV. Augustan Rome 109 1. A Groat Failure ami a Great Success 111 2. The City of Brick and the City of Marble 123 8. The Old Orclor and the New 136 V. Greece and Home 149 1, Hellenism and Home 151 2. Home and HelkniHrn 167 VI. The Home of the Emperors 185 1, The Grandeur That Was Rome 187 2. Of One Blood All Nations 203 i A Wel of Mingled Yam 208 VII. The Fall of the Pagan Empire 225 1. The Crumbling of Empire 227 2. The Flight of the Eagles 286 ft. Monuments nn l Men before Alaric 245 viii OF CONTEXTS VIIL The Rise of the Christian Empire 273 1. The City of the Dead in 2. The Blood of the Martyrs IMii 3. The Way Made Straight li W 4. The Meeting of the Old and the New 301 5. The Old and the New in Compromise JJ1H VOLUME 11 THE FIFTH CHRISTIAN CKNTritY TO THE PRESENT IX. The Dark Centuries 333 1. The Closing in of Night 335 2. A Thousand Years of Hum 4H 3. Roma Caput Mimdi 374 X-The Renaissance 31K 1. Augustans Returned 101 2. God and Mammon 4-1 f 8, The City of Raphael 428 XL The Home of the Popes 44 1 1. The Revels Ended 443 2. The Pope-kings 4fii 8, The Holy City 4HO XIL Rome and the Risorgimcnto 505 1. The Rise of Modern Italy 507 2 The National Movement and Kcmu S21 8. The City of Pius the Ninth 5 1 1 XIII. Eternal Rome 550 1. The New Capital fti 2. The City of the Soul f 7f Chronology 5g0 Notes Index LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fragments of the Acqua Claudia in title page Volnmc I Home from the Villa Aurelia facing fage 3 The Tiber Valley North of Rome 6 The Campagna at Pruttica di Mare 16 Monte Mario 22 Map of the Roman Sway in 486 B. C. 30 Earliest Rome 30 Etruscan Tombs at Corvctcri 40 The Growth of the Roman Territory 54 The Roman Sway in 134 B. C. 56 The Tiber at Ostia 72 View of Sentinuin from Sassoferrato 96 The Roman Sway in 49 B. C. 118 The Bridge of Augustus at Narai 122 The Mausoleum of Augustus 132 The Empire of Augustus 144 The Hums of Olympia 158 Tusculum and the Alban Mount 176 The Roman Sway in 69 A. D. 188 Roman Bridge over the Guadiana at Merida 190 Flan of Ancient Rome 198 Tombstone of Minicia Marcella 218 Wall of Septimius Severus Camp at Albano 238 The Wall of Aurelian 246 The Forum and Column of Trajan 254 The Catacombs of Saint Calixtus 278 Map of the Catacombs 290 Fragments of Building at Eleusis 298 Plan of the Catacombs of Saint Calixtus 820 x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Latcran Cloister w title page, Itilum 11 Mediaeval Tower and Wall at Term facing paye 314 The Torre delle Milizie 372 The Round Temple near the Tiber UHSi Plan of Rome in the Fifteenth Century Plan of Rome in 1551 400 The Ancient Church of Saint Peter 41 8 The Regions of Renaissance Rome 451 1 The Forum and Palatine in the Sixteenth Century 438 Plan of Rome in 1584 440 Scene in the Villa Borghe...« less