THE CITY ITSELF

ROME IN NUMBERS

THE 7 HILLS

PALATINE

CAPITOLINE

ESQUILINE

AVENTINE

QUIRINAL

CAELIAN

VIMINAL

THE TIBER RIVER

THE TIBER RIVER

• Used to be called Albulula (because it was white)
• Became a natural highway
• Connected to Cloaca Maxima, the sewer system
• 10 bridges were built over it

LAYOUT OF ROME

ROMAN FORUM

• Center of Roman public life
• Located between Palatine & Capitoline
• Augustus completed the building of it
• Currently open to public

THE TRIUMPHAL MARCH

• Civil ceremony that honored success of a military commander
• Started at Campus Martius which was just outside citys boundary, on the Tiber banks
• Continued through the Circus Flaminius and passed by Capitoline and through Triumphal Gate
• Then traveled towards the Circus Maximus, entered via sacra, and then the forum
• Finally, the march ends as the people go up the Capitoline and to the temple of Jupiter

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.musesrealm.net/rome/sevenhills.html
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/439237/Palatine-Hill
• http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/cityofrome/ss/7hillsofRome.htm

ACTIVITY

INSTRUCTIONS

• Retrieve handout
• Find location on map
• Collaborate with peers
• Arange in a layout similar to that of Romes
• Bonus: Walk through the Triumphal march

MAP OF ROME