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Roman Archaeology. Sixth Lecture. The Campagna. Professor Lanciani. Sanders Theatre...
...great forum, originally a low swampy ground, was gradually transformed to the magnificent parallogram which its name now calls to our minds. Professor Lanciani gave a very vivid picture of the appearance of the forum as it must have been in antiquity. The best preserved forum in Rome is entirely inaccessible because there are two convents on the site. The forum of Trajan was by all means the most impressive and magnificent...
Roman Archaeology. Roman Parks and Public Gardens. Professor Lanciani. Sanders Theatre...
...unusually large audience was gathered in Sanders Theatre yesterday evening to listen to the fourth of Prof. Lanciani's delightful lectures on Roman Archaeology. His subject was the Tiber, etc. It is surprising to learn that almost one thousand volumes have been written about this famous river. As the Tiber is the great waterway from Rome to the Sea, it is natural that Ancus Martius, one of its early kings, should have founded Ostia Tiberina at the mouth of the river...
Professor Lanciani closed his interesting lecture with a series of illustrations tracing the river from its entrance into the immortal city to the point where it plows out into the surrounding campagna. The inexcusable act of some one of the audience in disturbing the lecture cannot be too greatly deplored or too severely condemned. Some step should be taken to avoid such disgraceful occurrences...