Palatine Hill

This guide to the Palatine Hill in Rome follows Rome's founding myth of Romulus and Remus and the wolf's cave believed to lie somewhere beneath the hill, then turns to Augustus, Rome's first emperor, who built his modest house here almost directly above where that cave was thought to be. You'll hear about the emperors who expanded the hill into a sprawling palace complex, and what archaeologists went looking for here two thousand years later. Listen from the terrace overlooking the Circus Maximus.