{{Italic title}} [[File:Rome in 753 BC.png|right|thumb|400px|A hypothetical location of the walls of ''Roma quadrata'' on a topographical map of the area of Rome {{circa|753}} BC]] '''''Roma quadrata''''' ([[Latin]]; {{literally|square Rome}}; {{langx|grc|Τετράγωνος Ῥώμη}}, ''Tetrágōnos Rhṓmē'') was an area or structure within the original ''[[pomerium]]'' of the ancient city of [[Rome]], probably the [[Palatine Hill]] with both its Palatium and Cermalus peaks and their slopes. It apparently dated to the earliest stage of the city's formation. The original meaning had already become obscure to both [[Roman historiography|Latin]] and [[Hellenic historiography|Greek historians]] by the late [[Roman Republic]] (2nd century BC).
==See also== * [[Murus Romuli]] – the walls of ''Roma quadrata'' * [[Founding of Rome]]
==References== ===Ancient sources=== * [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities'', Bk. II, ch. 65 * [[Plutarch]], ''[[Parallel Lives]]'', Bk. 1: "Romulus", ch. 9 * [[Tacitus]], ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annals]]'', ch. 12, §24 * [[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]], cited in [[Gaius Julius Solinus|Solinus]], ''Polyhistor'', Bk. 1, ch. 17
===Modern scholarship=== * Brocato, P. "Dalle capanne del Cermalus alla Roma quadrata". Roma Romolo Remo e la fondazione della città (Catalog of the Exhibit) (2000): 284–287. * Carandini, Andrea. Remo e Romolo: dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750-700/675 a. C.). Vol. 210. Einaudi, 2006. * [[Andrea Carandini|Carandini, Andrea]], "The Blessing of the Palatine and the Founding of Roma Quadrata", in Idem, ''Rome: Day One'' (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011), 50–62. * Castagnoli, F. "Roma Quadrata", ''Studies presented to DM Robinson'', I, St. (1951): 389–399. * Castagnoli, Ferdinando. "Il Tempio Romano: Questioni di Terminologia e di Tipologia". Papers of the British School at Rome (1984): 3–20. * Musti, Domenico. "Varrone nell'insieme delle tradizioni su Roma quadrata". StudUrb 49 (1975): 297–318. * {{citation |last=Platner |first=Samuel Ball |author-link=Samuel Ball Platner |contribution=III.{{mdash}}The Pomerium and Roma Quadrata |title=The American Journal of Philology |volume=22 |issue=4 |date=1901 |pp=420–425 |doi=10.2307/288334 |jstor=288334 |contribution-url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/AJP/22/4/Pomerium*.html |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore }}. * Quercioli, Mauro. Le mura e le porte di Roma: dalla Roma quadrata alle mura aureliane, dalla città leonina alle moderne fortificazioni: un singolare itinerario storico tra imponenti porte e possenti bastioni alla riscoperta delle "difese" di Roma. Newton Compton, 1982. * Rykwert, Joseph, ''The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World'' (MIT Press, 1976, 1988), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq78Ff2TYHAC&dq=%22Roma+quadrata%22&pg=PA97 limited preview].
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