A Podcast about Rome. Episode 16: The Forum of Nerva

“Le Colonacce” of the Forum of Nerva are on the right.

Last time I spoke of Domitian who came to a Sticky End. After Domitian’s death his successor, Nerva, inaugurated the Forum Transitorium built largely during Domitian’s reign and bearing traces of his fondness for Minerva. More than a “forum” as such, it is a sort of monumentalisation of the Forum end of the Argiletum, a street running between the grubby, noisy alleys of the Subura and the civic heart of the city. Today remnants survive by my petrol pump of choice. All photos taken this week.

The myth of Aracne, Forum of Nerva

via Madonna dei Monti, following the route of the Argiletum

My petrol pump of choice with Luigi Broggini’s ENI logo, the temple of Saturn in the distance, and the remains of the Forum of Nerva just out of shot to the right.