Antemnae
Antemnae was a very old ancient city in the Italian countryside of Lazio .
The city was about 5.5 kilometers north of Rome at the mouth of the Anio in the Tiber . Antemnae was created by Sikelern . Conquered by Romulus , Antemnae faced Rome with Porsenna . In Augustan times, Antemnae was just a villa . With Pliny the Elder it is listed among the lost cities.
Archaeological evidence has been around since the 8th century BC. BC: Walls, temples and cisterns from the late Archaic period, temples and houses from the republican period and a villa from the late republic and imperial times .
swell
- Gaius Plinius Secundus: Natural history: Latin - German . Edited and translated by Roderich König in collaboration with Joachim Hopp and Wolfgang Glöckner. 37 volumes. Zurich u. a. 1990-2004. ISBN 3-7608-1618-5 .
- Plutarch : Romulus . German translation: Great Greeks and Romans . Translated by Konrat Ziegler . Volume 1 dtv, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7608-3606-2 . (English translation)
- Tacitus : annals. Latin / German edited by Erich Heller, 5th edition, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-7608-1645-2 , ( Latin text ).
literature
- The new Pauly , Vol. 1, Col. 726f.
- Lorenzo Quilici, Stefania Quilici Gigli: Antemnae , Rome 1978.