Palus Caprae

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Palus Caprae (translated: "goat swamp") was a large swamp area in the center of the Martian field , which was left out of the ager Tarquinorum as an inhospitable part at the beginning of the Etruscan settlement of Rome . The palus Caprae is documented by ancient written sources from Livius , Ovid and Plutarch .

The swamp was formed because the Mars field was alluvial plain of the Tiber and therefore regularly affected by flooding of the river. According to another controversial view, the boggy place is said to have been caused by the course of the Petronia amnis , which flowed down from the Quirinal , verifiably at least up to the level of the porticus Pompeiana , and then possibly flowing into the Tiber outside the Martian field. There have been many attempts to reconstruct the size of the area, as an indication the republican buildings around the field were used. According to Coarelli and Lugli , the center of the swamp was to be located between the Pantheon and the Agrippathermen . The area of ​​the Area Sacra on Largo Argentina is assumed to be the eastern border . The later construction of the Cloaca Maxima is also seen as an indication of the natural drainage of the swamp.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filippo Coarelli : Caprae Palus . In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae , Volume 1, Quasar, Rom 1993 p. 234.
  2. ^ Filippo Coarelli: Il Campo Marzio. Dalle Origini alla Fina della Repubblica . Quasar, Rome 1997, ISBN 88-7140-106-9 , pp. 17-60.
  3. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 1,16,1; Ovid , fasti , 2,491-512 cf. James George Frazer : Ovid's Fasti. Text and English translation. Heinemann, London 1931; Reprinted 1959 ( archive.org ); Plutarch : The Life of Romulus 27.4-8 (online)
  4. ^ Martin Maischberger : Tiberis. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae . Volume 4. Quasar, Rome 1999, p. 70
  5. ↑ Festus 45 and 250
  6. ^ Filippo Coarelli: Petronia Amnis. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Volume 4. Quasar, Rome 1999, p. 81 f .; different view: Giuseppe Lugli : I monumenti antichi di Roma e suburbio. Volume 2: Le grande opere pubbliche. Rome 1934, p. 274.

literature

  • Filippo Coarelli : Caprae Palus. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae . Volume 1. Quasar, Rome 1993, p. 234.
  • Filippo Coarelli: Il Campo Marzio. Dalle Origini alla Fina della Repubblica. Quasar, Rome 1997, ISBN 88-7140-106-9 , pp. 17-60.
  • Filippo Coarelli: Petronia Amnis. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Volume 4. Quasar, Rome 1999, p. 81 f.
  • Giuseppe Lugli : I monumenti antichi di Roma e suburbio. Volume 2, Le grande opere pubbliche. G. Bardi, Rome 1934, p. 274.
  • Martin Maischberger : Tiberis. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Volume 4. Quasar, Rome 1999, p. 70.