THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ROME, BASED ON J. H. PARKER'S “ARCHÆOLOGY OF ROME:" FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. BY ARTHUR SHADWELL, Μ.Α. ΟΧΟΝ. SECOND EDITION. Parker and Co. OXFORD, AND 6 SOUTHAMPTON-STREET, STRAND, LONDON. 1883. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. I N preparing a second edition of this little Introduction to the history of existing remains of ancient Rome, the author visited the city again last autumn, in order to verify his previous statements and correct any mistakes occurring in them, and also to add to them the results of the immense excavations carried out under the liberal auspices of the present Ministry of the King of Italy. To these must be added important discoveries made in private grounds, as e.g. in the Circus of Sallust. All that he has seen connected with pre-Republican remains contributes to confirm the account given in the early chapters of this work; indeed, to any unprejudiced mind, the weight of evidence is overwhelmingly conclusive that the old stories on this head are true. With the political and religious fables of the historians we do not attempt to deal; but the grand fragments exposed to view undeniably substantiate the accuracy of the architectural records. It is time that this should be acknowledged by our own scholars, who ought no longer to allow themselves to be misled by the gratuitous inventions of learned Germans, either of the last or of the present generation. The former had not the advantage |