Sources
Roma Centrale
Timeline
- 48 BCE: Julius Caesar vowed this monument
- 46 BCE: Building is dedicated
- Domitian’s reign: Temple completely remade
- 113 CE: Nee temple consecrated by Trajan
Physical evidence
- Located at the bottom of the Forum Julium in axial position
- Constructed of marble
- Pycnostyle columns
- Two sets of stairs up to the temple, where there were two fountains
- 8 columns along its long sides
- Physical remains are all from the temple of Domitian and Trajan
Literary sources
- App. bell. civ. 2.68.281, 2.69.284, 2.102.424
- Aug. Res Gest. 4.12
- Cass. Dio 43.22.2-3, 45.6.4-5
- Ov. ars 1.81 (source for temple’s material)
- Plin. nat. 2.93-94
- Vitr. 3.3.2 (source for pycnostyle columns)