Temple of Hercules Musarum

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The Temple of Hercules Musarum (Latin: Aedes Herculis Musarum) was a temple dedicated to Hercules in ancient Rome, near the Circus Flaminius.[1][2]

The temple was built by Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, who conquered the Greek city of Ambracia in 189 BC.[3] It was probably completed and dedicated during his triumph in 187 BC. The epithet 'Musarum' means 'of the Muses' and refers to Nobilior's discovery that Hercules was known in Greece as 'Musagetes' or 'leader of the Muses'. The temple contained copies of the fasti and statues taken from Ambracia, including statues of the Muses. The Portico of Metellus was later built near the temple.

In 29 BC, Lucius Marcius Philippus restored the temple and built a portico around it, later known as the Porticus Philippi or Portico of Philippus. Part of the temple's floorplan is known from a fragment (number 33) of the 3rd century Forma Urbis Romae.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ J. Bert Lott (19 April 2004). The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome. Cambridge University Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-521-82827-7.
  2. ^ L. Richardson, jr; Professor of Latin (Emeritus) L Richardson (October 1992). A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. JHU Press. pp. 187–. ISBN 978-0-8018-4300-6.
  3. ^ Alessandro Barchiesi; Jörg Rüpke; Susan A. Stephens (2004). Rituals in Ink: A Conference on Religion and Literary Production in Ancient Rome Held at Stanford University in February 2002. Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 150–. ISBN 978-3-515-08526-7.
  4. ^ Richardson, L. "Hercules Musarum and the Porticus Philippi in Rome." American Journal of Archaeology 81, no. 3 (1977): 355-61. Accessed May 2, 2021. doi:10.2307/503009.

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