Macellum (estate)
Macellum was a late antique imperial estate in the Cappadocia province of Asia Minor .
The name is derived from the Roman name Macellum for a market hall. The estate was located on the slope of Mons Argaeus ( Erciyes Dağı ), south of the provincial capital Caesarea ( Kayseri ). Macellum became known as the place where the future emperor Julian "Apostate" spent six years of his youth. The then emperor Constantius II apparently wanted to keep the boy away from the residence in a kind of "exile"; Julian lived in Macellum with his half-brother Constantius Gallus .
Julian himself describes his stay in his "Letter to the Athenians" in retrospect as an imprisonment. In fact, the complex was equipped with a large palace complex and extensive gardens and baths.
literature
- A. Hadjinicolaou Macellum, lieu d'exil de l'empereur Julien , Byzantion 21, 1951
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus Rerum Gestarum XV 2.7
- ↑ Sozomenos Historia Ecclesiastica 5.2
- ↑ Julian letter to the Senate and the people of Athens