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| Circus and Circensian Games / BURGESS Richard, MDCCCXXVIII [1828] | |||||||||||
Description of the Circus on the Via Appia, near Rome; with some account of the Circensian
Games. By the Rev. Richard Burgess, Chaplain to the english residents at Geneva, and
domestic chaplain to the right honourable lieutenant-general Lord Aylmer. [With folding
plates.]
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BURGESS Richard
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« […] In the immediate vicinity of Rome, no district has afforded more encouragement
to the excavator than the environs of the Via Appia; the Sepulchres and Columbaria
are seldom opened in vain; and after a lapse of more than two thousand years, we may
still tread the pavement of Appius Claudius the Censor.
The tomb of Caecilia Metella will be familiar to the recollection of every one who
has personally verified these remarks : in the valley beneath it, on the left side
of the Via Appia, lie the ruins of a Circus, at a distance of about two miles and
a half from the nearest point in the walls of Rome; this has always been an object
of great interest to architects and antiquaries, but it is now rendered still more
so by the excavations made in it, at the expense of the Duca de Bracciano, in 1825.
It is the object of the following pages to illustrate the remains of this Circus,
with a due attention to the recent discoveries, and to the concurrent authorities
of ancient authors.[…]. »
« [Circa 1858]. » Huth (1887)
: Antiquité , cirque , course de chars , Italie , Jeux antiques , Romains , Rome (italie)