Anderson, William J.; Spiers, Richard Phené; Ashby, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The architecture of Greece and Rome (2): The architecture of ancient Rome: an account of its historic development ... (London, 1927)

IN ROME FROM THE BEGINNING OF 300 B.C. 25

group of public buildings in the Campus Martius—his theatre and
the porticoes connected with it.1 Of these but little is left (see
below Theatres) but it is possible to form a far better idea of Julius
Caesar’s work, bearing in mind that as in the political, so also in the
architectural sphere, he left much to be completed by his successor
Augustus. The Forum Romanum owes to them the planning
which it retained throughout the rest of the classical period (see
below Forums) ; and this may be said indeed of the entire city.
Thenceforth, therefore, it would seem advisable to abandon the
chronological order which we have hitherto followed, and deal with
buildings in the classes into which they fall : but before doing so,
it would seem to be an appropriate moment to take a brief survey
of the materials and methods of construction adopted by Roman
architects during both the Republican and the Imperial period.

1 This passage is taken almost verbatim from my paper on Rome in the
Transactions of the Town Planning Conference (Oct. 1910), pp. 133 sqq., itself
largely repeated in the Town Planning Review, X (1923), pp. 431 sqq., cf., also
Companion to Latin Studies (Cambridge, 1921), 351 sqq., Haverfield Ancient
Town Planning, 82 sqq.