Aedes Concordiae

Aedes Concordiae-01

Sources

plan : LTUR II fig.153

facade: see Tuscan Temple rule documentation


Timeline

  • 367 BCE: Temple is first vowed by Camillus in 367 BCE, but other structures under the temple date to this time.
  • 304 BCE: A cult to Concord is attested, but likely before the temple’s construction.
  • 121 BCE: Temple is remade (made?) by L. Opimius after the deaths of the Gracchi.
  • 9 BCE: Temple is destroyed by fire or lightning
  • 7 BCE-10 CE: Temple is restored (recovered materials confirm this date)

Physical details

  • 4 meters in height are preserved, with the structure widening towards the base
    Location confirmed by an inscription (northeast area of Forum)
  • Rectangular room (43.4m x 22.7 m), preceded by a pronaos (25.6m x 14.8m)
  • High podium (podio), with a wall around the perimeter in opera quadrata of red tufa
  • Access to the temple itself might have been a ramp

Literary sources

  • Cass. Dio 56.25.1
  • Hist. Aug. Pert. 4.9
  • Ov. fast. 1.637-644
  • Plin. nat. 34.73, 80, 89, 90; 36.196
  • Plut. Cam. 42.4-6
  • Serv. Aen. 2.116
  • Stat. silv. 1.1.31
  • Suet. Tib. 20
  • Varro ling. 5.156
  • CIL VI 90-94, 2033, 3675a