. Architecture, classic and early Christian . though the mostdestructive of all agencies, hostile invasions, conflagrations,and long periods of neglect, have each in turn done theirutmost to destroy the vestiges of Imperial Eome, therestill remain fragments, and in one or two instances wholemonuments, enough to make Eome, after Athens, the richeststore of classic architectural antiquities in the Avorld. But it was not in Eome only that great buildings wereerected. The whole known civilised Avorld was underEoman dominion, and wherever a centre of governmentor even a flourishing town existed the
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . though the mostdestructive of all agencies, hostile invasions, conflagrations,and long periods of neglect, have each in turn done theirutmost to destroy the vestiges of Imperial Eome, therestill remain fragments, and in one or two instances wholemonuments, enough to make Eome, after Athens, the richeststore of classic architectural antiquities in the Avorld. But it was not in Eome only that great buildings wereerected. The whole known civilised Avorld was underEoman dominion, and wherever a centre of governmentor even a flourishing town existed there sprang up theresidence of the dominant race, and their places ofbusiness, public worship, and public amusement. Con-sequently, we find in our own country, and in France,Spain, Germany, Italy, jSTorth Africa, and Egypt—inshort, in all the countries Avhere Eoman rule wasestablished—examples of temples, amphitheatres, theatres,triumphal arches, and dwelling-houses, some of them ofgreat interest and occasionally in admirable Fio. i:;!.—Incaxtada in Salosica, CHAPTER IX. THE BUILDINGS OF THE R0MAX3. THE temples iu Eome were not, as in Greece andEgypt, the structures n]:on Avliich the architectlavished all the resources of his art and his science. Thegeneral form of them was copied from that made useof by the Greeks, but the spirit iu which the originalidea Avas carried out was entirely dilferent. In a word,the temples of Eome were by no means worthy of hersize and position as the metropolis of the world, andvery few remains of them exist. Ten columns are still standing of the Temple of Anto-ninus and Faustina (now the church of San Lorenzo inMiranda) : it occupied the site of a previous templeand was dedicated by Antoninns Pius to his wife Faus-tina. The Temple (supposed) of Fortuna Virilis, in theIonic style (Fig. 125), still exists as the church of SantaMaria Egiziaca: this was tetrastyle, with half-columnsall round it, and this was of the kind called by Vi
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