Figure 3.34 Rome at its height and Rome in ruins. The image on the left, from a nineteenth-century engraving, shows Rome at its height, as seen from Mount Palatine, one of Rome’s seven hills. The image on the right, from a nineteenth-century painting, shows the ruins of the Roman Forum from the Capitoline Hill, another of Rome’s seven hills. (Both photos: The Granger Collection, New York/The Granger Collection.)