Collatia
Collatia was an ancient city in Lazio and was located on the Via Collatina named after her .
At the time of the early Roman Empire , Collatia was most likely about 15 km northeast of Rome , today the place is part of the Municipio delle Torri (VIII) close to exit no. 14 of the Grande Raccordo Anulare . There are also unproven assumptions that Collatia was in the area of what is now the municipality of Castellaccio, southeast of Rome. So far, no ruins of the city have been found, but there are indications that these could lie under the medieval fortified manor Castello di Lunghezza, first mentioned around 752, and the adjoining small medieval town quarter from the 13th century.
The ancient sources also offer little: while Livy suspects that the city was inhabited by the Sabines and was conquered by Rome, Dionysius of Halicarnassus describes it as a Latin city. In Cicero's time it no longer seems to have existed, and Strabo calls it a hamlet . Pliny the Elder counts Collatia to the submerged cities of Lazio.
Collatia is closely connected with the legendary expulsion of the last Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus in 509 BC. According to legend, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus and his wife Lucretia lived in the place . After Lucretia was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, a son of the king, she committed suicide. Her body was brought by her husband and Lucius Junius Brutus to the forum of the place where Brutus incited the people against Superbus, which eventually led to his expulsion from Rome. Collatinus and Brutus are said to have become the first consuls of Rome.
literature
- Gerhard Radke: Collatia. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 1244.
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Remarks
- ^ Livy 1:38 .
- ↑ Dionysius of Halikarnassos 3, 50 .
- ^ Strabo 5, 230 .
- ↑ Naturalis historia 3, 68 .
- ↑ Livy 1.57 to 60
Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ' N , 12 ° 40' E