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Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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bvthe Nymph^um, then along the brink ofthe valley, we mount up to some chambers, formerly a reservoir from whiclthe water poured in a cascade to tinstream Peneas below. From the edg<of this ruin we look down upon avalley, made in imitation of the Vale of TemppA stream run^through it, named,after the river inThessaly, Pene vsOn the opposite sloj^eof the valley was theLatin TheatreWe now enter IheImperial Palace,with the ruins ofthe Temples ofDiana and Venusadjoining; passingthrough vMch, at the farthest extremity, is the Temple of CastorAND Pollux. Near this are some subterranean passages, called theTartarus. Beyond were the Elysian Fields. Elysium, or theElysian Fields, was the region where the souls of the dead weresupposed to go to if they had been good. There, happiness was com-plete, and the pleasures were innocent and refined; the air was sereneand temperate, the bowers ever green, and the meadows watered withperennial streams, and the biids continually warbled in the groves.
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VII.I.A OF HADRIA-S. 324 RAMBLES IN THE CAMPACNA. Tartanis was the region of punishment in the nether world of theancients. On the farther side of Tartarus is the Roman Theatre ; he-yoiul was the Lyceum. Returning, we come upon the Academy.The Academy at Athens was an open meadow, given to the city byAcademus, from whom it took its name. It was afterwards formedinto a grove. It was the resort of Plato, and hence his disciples tookthe name of academic philosophers. Beyond is the Serapeon of Canopus, with the Sacrarium ofJupiter Serapis at the end, built in imitation of the canal con-necting Alexandria with Canopus, a city of Lower Egjq)t, twelvemiles east of Alexandria, at the west or Canopic mouth of the Nile. On the right are some remains of the Hippodrome; and towardsthe entrance of the Serapeon, the Baths. From here we reach theStadium, where the foot races were held. We now come upon a loftywaU of opus reticulatum, nearly six hundred feet long. This was oneof the walls of the Poec

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