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EspañolESQUILINE HILL
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The 'Esquiline Hill' is one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome.
The origin of the name ''Esquilino'' is still under much debate. One view is that the Hill was named after the abundance of holm-oaks, ''exculi'', that resided there. Another view is that, during Rome's infancy, the Capitolium, the Palatium, and the northern fringes of the Caelian were the most-populated areas of the city, whose inhabitants were considered ''inquilini'', ''in-towners''; those that inhabited the external regions - Aurelian, Oppius, Cispius, Fagutalis - were considered ''exquilini'', ''suburbanites''.
Rising above the valley in which was later built the Colosseum, the Esquiline was a fashionable residential district. At the southern-most cusp, the ''Oppius'', Nero confiscated property to build his extravagant, mile-long ''Golden House'' Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning, , Leland M., Roth, Westview Press, 1993, ISBN 0-06-430158-3 , and later still Trajan constructed his bath complex, both of whose remains are visible today. Farther to the northeast, at the summit of the ''Cispius'', is the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
In 1781, the marble statue of a Discus thrower - the so-called Discobolus of Myron - was discovered.
The Temple of Minerva Medica, on the Esquiline Hill
The 'Esquiline Hill' is one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome.
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Etymology
The origin of the name ''Esquilino'' is still under much debate. One view is that the Hill was named after the abundance of holm-oaks, ''exculi'', that resided there. Another view is that, during Rome's infancy, the Capitolium, the Palatium, and the northern fringes of the Caelian were the most-populated areas of the city, whose inhabitants were considered ''inquilini'', ''in-towners''; those that inhabited the external regions - Aurelian, Oppius, Cispius, Fagutalis - were considered ''exquilini'', ''suburbanites''.
History
Rising above the valley in which was later built the Colosseum, the Esquiline was a fashionable residential district. At the southern-most cusp, the ''Oppius'', Nero confiscated property to build his extravagant, mile-long ''Golden House'' Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning, , Leland M., Roth, Westview Press, 1993, ISBN 0-06-430158-3 , and later still Trajan constructed his bath complex, both of whose remains are visible today. Farther to the northeast, at the summit of the ''Cispius'', is the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
In 1781, the marble statue of a Discus thrower - the so-called Discobolus of Myron - was discovered.
References
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