The triumph—an elaborate procession celebrating Rome’s military victories over foreign peoples—was one of ancient Rome’s most important institutions, a ritual at once religious and political, military and spectacular. In this talk, Maggie Popkin, assistant professor of Roman art at Case Western Reserve University, explores the architectural elaboration of the triumphal route during the third and second centuries B.C.E. The temples, porticoes, arches, and column monuments in front of which triumphs passed powerfully shaped how Romans experienced and remembered triumphs and, consequently, how they conceived of an urban identity for their city.