Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the CampagnaForbes, S. Russell
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Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Forbes, S. Russell
Art -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks; Rome -- Antiquities
containing busts of great men arranged round the room on shelves, many
of doubtful identity. The most important are,--
1. Virgil. 4, 5, 6. Socrates. 7, 35. Alcibiades. 10. Seneca. 16.
Marcus Agrippa. 20. Marcus Aurelius. 21. Diogenes. 22. Archimedes. 27.
Pythagoras. 28. Alexander the Great. 30. Aristophanes. 31, 32.
Demosthenes. 33, 34. Sophocles. 37. Hippocrates. 41 to 43. Euripides.
44 to 47. Homer. 48. Domitius Corbulo. 49. Scipio Africanus the elder.
Pompey the Great. 60. Thucydides. 63. Double Hermes of Epicurus and
Metrodorus, friends and philosophers. 72. Julian. 74. Ahenobarbus,
father of Nero. 75. Cicero (?). 76. Terence.
The walls are adorned with bas-reliefs. The seated figure in the
centre of the room is supposed to be Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the
great general of the republic, who died B.C. 208.
HALL OF THE EMPERORS.
and their wives, whose ancient authentic busts are arranged round the
room in chronological order:--
1. Julius Cæsar.
2. Augustus.
4. Tiberius.
6. Drusus, sen.
7. Drusus, jun.
8. Antonia.
9. Germanicus.
10. Agrippina, sen.
11. Caligula.
12. Claudius.
13. Messalina.
14. Agrippina, jun.
16. Nero.
17. Poppæa Sabina.
18. Galba.
19. Otho.
20. Vitellius.
21. Vespasian.
22. Titus.
23. Julia.
24. Domitian.
25. Domitia Longina.
27. Trajan.
28. Plotina.
31. Hadrian.
33. Julia Sabina.
35. Antoninus Pius.
36. Faustina, sen.
38. Marcus Aurelius.
39. Faustina, jun.
43. Commodus.
44. Crispina.
45. Pertinax.
46. Didius Julianus.
47. Manlia Scantilla.
50. Septimius Severus.
52. Julia Pia.
53. Caracalla.
54. Geta.
55. Macrinus.
57. Elagabalus.
60. Alexander Severus.
62. Maximinus.
64. Gordianus I.
65. Gordianus II.
66. Pupienus.
67. Balbinus.
68. Gordianus III.
69. Philip.
70. Decius.
72. Hostilianus.
73. Gallus.
76. Gallienus.
77. Salonina.
80. Diocletian.
81. Chlorus.
82. Julian, the philosopher.
83. Magnus Decentius.
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