Temple of Divus Augustus
Major temple in Rome built to commemorate Roman emperor, Augustus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple originally built to commemorate the deified first Roman emperor, Augustus. It was built between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, behind the Basilica Julia, on the site of the house that Augustus had inhabited before he entered public life in the mid-1st century BC.[1] It is known from Roman coinage that the temple was originally built to an Ionic hexastyle design.[2] However, its size, physical proportions and exact site are unknown.[3] Provincial temples of Augustus, such as the much smaller Temple of Augustus in Pula, now in Croatia, had already been constructed during his lifetime. Probably because of popular resistance to the notion, he was not officially deified in Rome until after his death, when a temple at Nola in Campania, where he died, seems to have been begun. Subsequently, temples were dedicated to him all over the Roman Empire.
Location | Regio VIII Forum Romanum |
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Coordinates | 41.891616°N 12.484471°E / 41.891616; 12.484471 |
Type | Roman temple |
History | |
Builder | Tiberius/?Livia for Augustus |
Founded | Constructed 37; rebuilt 89/90; restored late 150s |