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Temple Of Hercules (other)
The Temple of Hercules or Temple of Heracles may refer to: Places * Temple of Hercules Victor, or Temple of Hercules Olivarius, in the Forum Boarium in Rome ** Great Altar of Hercules The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules () stood in the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River in ancient Rome. It was the earliest cult location of Hercules in Rome, possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century . Its foundations possibly li ..., the cult center predating the Temple of Hercules Victor * Temple of Hercules Victor in the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Tivoli) * "Temple of Hercules" (Amman), properly called the Great Temple of Amman (Roman Philadelphia), containing fragments of a monumental sculpture * Temple of Heracles, Agrigento, in old Akragas in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy * Temple of Hercules Custos, a lost temple to Hercules the Guardian * Temple of Hercules Musarum, a lost temple in Rome to Hercules of the Muses * Temple of Hercules Pompeianus, a lost temple in Rome * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Of Hercules Victor
The Temple of Hercules Victor () or Hercules Olivarius (Latin language, Latin for "Hercules the Olive Branch, Olive-Bearer") is a ancient Roman religion, Roman Roman temple, temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, the former Forum Boarium, in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos (architecture), tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely surrounded by a colonnade. This layout caused it to be mistaken for a temple of Vesta (mythology), Vesta until it was correctly identified by Napoleon's Prefect of Rome, Camille de Tournon. Despite (or perhaps due to) the Forum Boarium's role as the cattle market for ancient Rome, the Temple of Hercules is the subject of a folk belief claiming that neither flies nor dogs will enter the holy place. The temple is the earliest surviving mostly intact marble building in Rome and the only surviving one made of Greek marble. Description It is dated to the later 2nd century BC and was built either by L. Mummius Achaicus, conqueror of the Ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Altar Of Hercules
The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules () stood in the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River in ancient Rome. It was the earliest cult location of Hercules in Rome, possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century . Its foundations possibly lie beneath the present church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, Italy. Legend Roman tradition held that Hercules completed his 10th labor in Italy, driving the cattle through Rome around the location of the latter cattle market (). It made the location of the altar the place where Hercules slew Cacus and ascribed its creation to Evander of Pallene. Virgil's ''Aeneid'' includes a passage where Evander ascribes the origin even earlier, attributing it to Potitius and the Pinarii. History The altar was the earliest cult location for Hercules in Rome, predating the circular Temple of Hercules Victor and possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century . The altar was destroyed during the Great Fire of Rome in the year 64 but was rebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanctuary Of Hercules Victor (Tivoli)
The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Italian: ''Ercole Vincitore'') in Tivoli, Lazio, Tivoli (Italy) was one of the major complexes of the Roman Republic, Roman Republican era built on the wave of the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic cultural influence after the final Greece in the Roman era, Roman conquest of Greece (146 BC). It was built just outside the ancient city of ''Tibur'' and is the largest of Italic sanctuaries dedicated to Hercules (such as the Shrine of Hercules Curinus), and the second in the whole Mediterranean after that of Cádiz in Spain. It was built between about 120 and 82 BC and was a masterpiece of Ancient Roman engineering, Roman engineering with many innovations. Further building was done in the Augustus, Augustan period especially in the theatre area. Augustus administered justice here on numerous occasions, under the arcades of the sanctuary. The site had been used since the construction of the Villa d'Este in 1570 until 1993 for industry with foundries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amman Citadel
The Amman Citadel () on Citadel Hill () is an archaeological site on an L-shaped hill towering over Downtown Amman, in the central part of the capital of Jordan. The Amman Citadel is considered to be among the world's oldest continuously inhabited places. Evidence of inhabitance since the Neolithic period has been found and the hill was fortified during the Bronze Age (1800 BCE). The hill became the capital of the Kingdom of Ammon, sometime after 1200 BCE. It later came under the sway of major powers such as the Assyrian, Babylonian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, and Umayyad empires. During classical antiquity the city expanded far beyond Citadel Hill, which was given the role of an acropolis. After the Umayyads came a period of decline and for much of the following millennium, the former city became an abandoned pile of ruins only sporadically used by Bedouins and seasonal farmers; this hiatus came to an end in 1878, when the Ottoman Empire resettled there disp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Of Heracles, Agrigento
The Temple of Heracles or Temple of Hercules (the Roman name of the hero) is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the ancient city of Akragas, located in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento, Italy. The building, in the Archaic Greece, archaic Doric temple, Doric style, is found on what is known as the hill of the temples, on a rocky spur near Villa Aurea. The name ''Temple of Heracles'' is an attribution of modern scholarship, based on Cicero's mention of a temple dedicated to the hero ''non longe a foro'' "not far from the agora" (''Verrine'' II 4.94), containing a famous statue of Heracles. That the agora of Akragas was in this area has not yet been demonstrated, but the identification is generally accepted. This temple is located approximately one kilometer to the west of Temple of Concordia, Agrigento, Temple of Concordia. History The traditionally accepted chronology of the temple identifies it as the most ancient of the Greek Akragantine temples, dating to the final ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Of Hercules Custos
The Temple of Hercules Custos (Latin: ''Aedes Herculis Custodis'') was a Roman temple dedicated to 'Hercules the Guardian'. Its location is unknown and no remains have been found, although a Temple to Hercules linked to Lucius Cornelius Sulla (the ''Herculem Sullanum'') was noted as standing in the region of the Esquiline Hill during the late 4th century. Its history is unclear. Ovid writes that it was to the west of the Circus Flaminius - it was probably built around the same time (221 BC). It was re-built by Sulla after consulting the Sibylline Oracles. This consultation of the oracles and the epithet 'Custos' seems to imply it was built and/or rebuilt in response to a major crisis, though it is unknown what its nature was. In 218 BC, the senate decreed a ''supplicatio In ancient Roman religion, a ''supplicatio'' is a day of public prayer during times of crisis or a thanksgiving for receipt of aid. During days of public prayer, Roman men, women, and children traveled in proce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Of Hercules Musarum
The Temple of Hercules Musarum () was a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules Musarum ("Hercules of the Muses") located near the Circus Flaminius in the southern Campus Martius in ancient Rome. History The temple was built by the consul Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, who conquered the Macedonian city of Ambracia in It was probably completed and dedicated during his triumph in Having earned scorn for enriching himself by raiding Greek temples, Fulvius Nobilior supposedly erected a portico around an earlier temple of Hercules in the Campus Martius, most likely that of Hercules Magnus Custos ("Hercules the Great Guardian"). He donated the copies of the and statues he had taken from Ambracia, including a statue group of the Muses,Jörg Rüpke, ''Religion in Republican Rome,'' pp. 153–154. after which the temple became known as Hercules Musarum, a calque of the Greek Hercules Musagetes (, ''Hēraklḗs Mousagétēs''), Hercules as leader of the Muses. The temple later became the home of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Of Hercules Pompeianus
The Temple of Hercules Pompeianus (Latin: ''aedes Herculis Pompeiani'') was a temple dedicated to Hercules in ancient Rome near the circus Maximus. Vitruvius (III.3.5) refers to it being decorated in the Tuscan manner. It contained a statue of Hercules by Myron.Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'', XXXIV.57 'Pompeianus' may indicate either that it was an older building built by the Pompeius family or that it was restored by Pompey the Great. It seems to be linked to Republican-era tufa foundations discovered under Santa Maria in Cosmedin The Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin (; Latin: Santa Maria ''de Schola Graeca'') is a minor basilica, minor basilican churches of Rome, church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the Mary, mother of Jesus, Virgin Mary. It is located in the rione (neig .... See also * List of Ancient Roman temples References Bibliography *Platner and Ashby''A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' 1929, p. 255-256 *Burgess''The topography and antiquities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrine Of Hercules Curinus
The sanctuary or Shrine of Hercules Curinus was an Italic and later Roman sanctuary, the ruins of which are located in the comune of Sulmona, in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The epithet of Curinus or Quirinus was also given to other deities in the Republican era, such as Jupiter Quirinus of Superaequum. The Romans linked the epithet "Quirinus" with the deified Romulus, symbol of the unity of the protohistoric communities that formed the primitive settlement of Rome (Quirinus is the origin of ''curia''). An expansion of the sanctuary dates to the end of the social war (89 BC), when it was enlarged passing from a structure of a local nature to a large sanctuary on terraces similar to the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia in Palestrina or the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor in Tibur Tivoli ( ; ; ) is a town and in Lazio, Central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine Hills. The city offers a wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
