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Aedes Venus Genetrix

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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)