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The rest of the river bend northward was known as the Campus Martius (Field of Mars). Marshy in places, with a few temples and public buildings, it was made into one of the grandeurs of Rome by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in the 1st century bce. The swamp became a lake, the Stagnum Agrippae, amid a landscape of lawns, baths, temples, and parks. Today, interspersed among roughly 40 palaces and 100 churches are remnants of what the emperors later built there. The shape and some of the remains of Domitian’s stadium (81–89 ce), which remained intact until at least 1450, are ...(100 of 20237 words)