Gibbon took as his starting point Rome at the height of its glory, in the second century A.D., when the Capitoline Hill was a symbol of the city’s eternal power and the Temple of Jupiter a ...

We go around it, but in the end, we never actually climb the Capitoline Hill. On Rome's birthday ... From the Tarpeian Rock to the Temple of Jupiter. Starting from the square, where the statue ...

Straight from his early worship in archaic Rome ... Jupiter reigned alongside Juno, called the queen of the gods and Minerva, ...