The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar
The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar by John M. CARTER
English | 1970 | ASIN: B0016H9NFY | 271 Pages | PDF | 39 MB
English | 1970 | ASIN: B0016H9NFY | 271 Pages | PDF | 39 MB
IT is still possible to see where Caesar died. Alongside the Largo Argentina, in the area of Rome which lies opposite St. Peter's between the Corso and the river Tiber, stands a row of four temples of the republican era. Behind them, embedded in the later buildings of the Christian city, can be made out traces of a hall which was evidently part of a much larger complex. The temples have so far defied identification; but the hall—though conclusive proof is lacking—can hardly be anything except the Curia Pompei, the place where the senate met on the morning of March 15, 44 B.C. It formed part of what was once an imposing scheme, facing on to a tree-lined, porticoed square that was dominated by the back wall of a great open-air theatre on the opposite side. At that time the theatre was the first and only one in Rome; and theatre, porticoes, and hall together constituted the most splendid public building then to be seen in the city. The porticoes served for a foyer, and the hall, according to Plutarch, was designed as can additional ornament to the whole'.
The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar
