Amphitheater of Statilius Taurus

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The amphitheater of Statilius Taurus ( Latin Amphitheatrum Statilii Tauri ) was an amphitheater in the city of Rome , which was built in 29 BC. Was built.

Titus Statilius Taurus , a Roman general of Augustus and 34 BC One of the last who - without being a member of the imperial family - was allowed to celebrate a triumph , had the amphitheater in 29 BC. When Augustus was consul for the fourth time , at his own expense. It was the first stone amphitheater in Rome, which until then was always built of wood , but sometimes also later, like the Amphitheater Neronis . For the merit of having donated this stone building, the Roman people gave Statilius Taurus the right to appoint one of the praetors to be appointed every year . The one from the 34 BC The construction financed by war booty made in Africa stood on the Field of Mars and was destroyed in the fire of 64 . The exact localization of this amphitheater, which can be addressed as a private building based on inscriptions, within the large area of ​​the Marsfeld is controversial.

Since Strabo mentions the amphitheater in connection with three neighboring theaters, all of which were located on a separate area within the Martius campus, the majority of the researchers assume that the amphitheater was located near the Circus Flaminius . In the three theaters one would like to recognize those of Pompeius , Balbus and Marcellus , which were located near the Circus Flaminius, and in 1762 Giovanni Battista Piranesi documented the remains of a group of spectators below the Palazzo Cenci, also near the circus.

Lawrence Richardson Jr., on the other hand, suspects the location to the east of Via Lata at the southern end of Piazza SS. Apostoli , since he saw the amphitheater only drowned in the second wave of the fire and this started from the suburb of Rome called Aemiliana near the Tiber. However, firstly, the location of the Aemiliana itself is unclear, secondly, there may have been different quarters of the name.

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  1. ↑ Cassius Dio 51.23 ; Suetonius , August 29 .
  2. ↑ Cassius Dio 51:23.
  3. ↑ Cassius Dio 51:23.
  4. ↑ Tacitus , Annals 3.72 .
  5. ↑ Strabo 5,3,8 (236).
  6. ↑ Cassius Dio 62,18,2 .
  7. ↑ CIL 06, 06226 . 06227 . 06228 .
  8. ^ Giuseppe Marchetti-Longhi: Nuovi aspetti della topografia dell'antico Campo Marzio di Roma: Circo Flaminio o teatro di Balbo. In: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité. Volume 82, 1970, pp. 117–158, here: p. 130 note 1; Timothy Peter Wiseman: The Circus Flaminius. In: Papers of the British School at Rome. Volume 42, 1974, pp. 3-26, here: pp. 10 f. 22; Alessandro Viscogliosi: Amphitheatrum Statilii Tauri. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae . Vol. 1. Quasar, Rome 1993, p. 36 f .; Filippo Coarelli : Campo Marzio. Dalle origini alla fine della Repubblica. Quasar, Rome 1997, p. 546.
  9. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 15.40 ; Lawrence Richardson Jr .: A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1992, p. 11.
  10. ^ Robert EA Palmer: The Vici Luccei in the Forum Boarium and some Lucceii in Rome. In: Bulletino della Commissione Archeologica Communale di Roma. Vol. 85, 1976-1977, pp. 135-161, here: pp. 148-150; see. also Ömür Harmanşah: Aemiliana. In: Elisha Ann Dumser (Ed.): Mapping Augustan Rome (= Journal of Roman Archeology . Supplement 50). Portsmouth 2002, p. 41 ( online ).