. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. ministered to the imperial city. The hot-airsystem which warms the hotels of modern Europe and Americawas in general use in every comfortable villa of the iirst Education was more general and more accessible to thepoor in 200 than in i 850. The siege artillery employedby Trajan was as effective, probably, as the cannon of Vauban. The city of Rome must have been a wonderful spectacleunder the emperors. One of our modem international exhi-bitions might faintly recall a little of its splendours, with
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. ministered to the imperial city. The hot-airsystem which warms the hotels of modern Europe and Americawas in general use in every comfortable villa of the iirst Education was more general and more accessible to thepoor in 200 than in i 850. The siege artillery employedby Trajan was as effective, probably, as the cannon of Vauban. The city of Rome must have been a wonderful spectacleunder the emperors. One of our modem international exhi-bitions might faintly recall a little of its splendours, with giltand stucco for gold and marble. Northward from the slope ofthe Aventine Hill there was a succession of majestic publicbuildings, temple beyond temple, forum beyond forum, as eachof the great emperors had added to the work of his predecessorand endeavoured to eclipse it. At your feet would be theCircus Maximus, where the chariot-races were held, andbehind it the Palatine Hill crowded with palaces. To the eastof it ran the Triumphal Road passing through the Arch of280. The Roman Forum in the early Empire THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROMEConstantine to the Colossus of Nero and the mighty FlavianAmphitheatre known to us as the Colosseum. From there the !Sacred Way led north-west through the Arch of Titus past the iTemple of Venus and Rome and the Basilica of Constantine to Ia series of stately fora, opening one from the other and con-taining altars, columns, arches, statues, and temples surroundedwith shady colonnades, whose cloisters served for business andpleasure. Above them on the west rose the ancient CapitolineHill crowned with its great Temple of Jupiter and immemorialcitadel. Picture these magnificent spaces filled with gravecitizens in their flowing white togas, hurrying slaves in theirbright tunics, visitors and barbarians from all corners of theearth, trousered Gauls, skin-clad Sarmatians, mitred now and then the burly gladiators swagger through thecrowd adm
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