Porticus Octavia

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The Porticus Octavia was a portico in Rome that was built shortly after 167 BC. BC by Gnaeus Octavius as a monument to his naval victory over the Macedonian king Perseus .

Octavius, who as praetor had commanded Roman naval units, celebrated on December 1, 167 BC. A sea triumph (triumphus navalis) over Macedonia and King Perseus. In the following years he donated the double portico ( porticum duplicem ) named after him on the Marsfeld at the Circus Flaminius . The former position of the portico on the Monumentum Ancyranum and at Pliny is described in more detail . It was said to have bronze column capitals and was also called porticus Corinthia .

After it was destroyed by fire, the porticus, next to which the theater of Pompeius had been built in the meantime , was rebuilt by Augustus in the 1930s BC. Rebuilt, who had the standards captured by the Dalmatians set up there. There are no more remains of the portico.

Even in antiquity, the Porticus Octavia was occasionally confused with the neighboring Porticus Octaviae , which was built later and named after Augustus' sister . Immediately to the east of the portico Octavia completed from 33 BC. BC as the first second portico in a confined space, that of the Philippi .

literature

  • Filippo Coarelli : Il Campo Marzio. Dalle Origini alla Fina della Repubblica . Quasar, Rome 1997, ISBN 88-7140-106-9 , pp. 403 .
  • Tanja Itgenshorst : Tota illa pompa. The triumph in the Roman Republic . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-25260-9 , pp. 236–238 (CD-ROM supplement 2).
  • Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, sv Porticus ( online ).
  • Emilio Rodríguez-Almeida: Forma Urbis Marmorea. Aggiornamento Generale 1980. Rome 1981.
  • Emilio Rodríguez-Almeida: Formae Urbis Antiquae: the mappe marmoree di Roma tra la Repubblica e Settimio Severo . Rome 2002

Remarks

  1. ↑ Velleius Paterculus 2, 1 ; Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 44,17,10.
  2. ^ Filippo Coarelli : Il Campo Marzio. Dalle Origini alla Fina della Repubblica . Quasar, Rome 1997, ISBN 8-871-40106-9 , p. 403.
  3. ↑ a b Res gestae divi Augusti 19 . Festus 188 Lindsay: Octaviae porticus duae appellantur, quarum alteram, theatro Marcelli propriorem, Octavia soror Augusti fecit; alteram theatro Pompei proximam Cn. Octavius ​​Cn. filius, qui fuit aedilis curulis, praetor, consul, decemvirum sacris faciendis, triumphavitque de rege Perseo navali triumpho: quam combustam reficiendam curavit Caesar Augustus.
  4. ↑ a b Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 34, 13 .
  5. ↑ Appian , Illyrike 28 ( English translation ).
  6. ↑ Cassius Dio 49, 43 ( English translation ).
  7. ↑ Forma Urbis : FOR 31hh; Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project: FUR AG 1980 # 31hh ; Emilio Rodríguez Almeida: Forma Urbis Marmorea . Aggiornamento Generale 1980. Rome 1981, plate 23