These links are to pictures taken on holiday in April 2007 and are beginning to replace those taken ten year earlier. Even though illustrations from the literature would be better, these are used to show the ruins that a visitor actually was permitted to see and photograph at the time.
References: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929) by Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby; A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1992) by L. Richardson, Jr.; Urbs Roma (1967) by Donald R. Dudley; Roman Imperial Architecture (1981) by J. B. Ward-Perkins; The Roman Forum (1970) by Michael Grant; Roman Sculpture (1992) by Diana E. E. Kleiner. An especially thorough guide for the visitor is Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (1998) by Amanda Claridge. The map is from the Roma Urbs Imperatorum Aetate (1979-1984) by Francesco Scagnetti and Giuseppe Grande.
