# Roma quadrata

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A hypothetical location of the walls of *Roma quadrata* on a topographical map of the area of Rome c. 753 BC

***Roma quadrata*** ([Latin](/source/Latin); lit. 'square Rome'; [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Τετράγωνος Ῥώμη, *Tetrágōnos Rhṓmē*) was an area or structure within the original *[pomerium](/source/Pomerium)* of the ancient city of [Rome](/source/Rome), probably the [Palatine Hill](/source/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 [Latin](/source/Roman_historiography) and [Greek historians](/source/Hellenic_historiography) by the late [Roman Republic](/source/Roman_Republic) (2nd century BC).

## See also

- [Murus Romuli](/source/Murus_Romuli) – the walls of *Roma quadrata*

- [Founding of Rome](/source/Founding_of_Rome)

## References

### Ancient sources

- [Dionysius of Halicarnassus](/source/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus), *Roman Antiquities*, Bk. II, ch. 65

- [Plutarch](/source/Plutarch), *[Parallel Lives](/source/Parallel_Lives)*, Bk. 1: "Romulus", ch. 9

- [Tacitus](/source/Tacitus), *[Annals](/source/Annals_(Tacitus))*, ch. 12, §24

- [Varro](/source/Marcus_Terentius_Varro), cited in [Solinus](/source/Gaius_Julius_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.

- [Carandini, Andrea](/source/Andrea_Carandini), "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.

- [Platner, Samuel Ball](/source/Samuel_Ball_Platner) (1901), ["III.—The Pomerium and Roma Quadrata"](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/AJP/22/4/Pomerium*.html), *The American Journal of Philology*, vol. 22, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 420–425, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/288334](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F288334), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [288334](https://www.jstor.org/stable/288334).

- 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), [limited preview](https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq78Ff2TYHAC&dq=%22Roma+quadrata%22&pg=PA97).

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