DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42778#0053
IN ROME FROM THE BEGINNING OF 300 B.G. 23
position on a cliff. The foliage of the capitals seems to have been
derived from the acanthus mollis, and their carving, as well as
that of the festoons of fruit and heads of oxen on the frieze, is of
an extremely vigorous type.
The rectangular temple at Tivoli is less well preserved than the
circular temple which stands close by. In plan it closely resembles
the temple of Fortuna Virilis, but to judge from its forms is
slightly earlier in date : and it is built entirely of hewn stone. The
temple of Fortuna at Palestrina is described below (p. 32). The
Corinthian temple of Castor and Pollux at Cori is less well
preserved than the Doric temple, having only two columns left,
but the lettering of the dedicatory inscription shows that it belongs
approximately to the same period. The capital is of the classical
Corinthian type (see Plate XXII).
It may be well to add here one or two examples of Corinthian
temples of the succeeding period—that of Julius Caesar and Augustus
in which the traditional style of construction in stone faced with
stucco is retained. We may mention the temple of Cybele on the
Palatine, where we still find under Augustus the use of peperino
coated with stucco, as in the temples of the Forum Holitorium, but
where the similarity of the cornice to that of the Ionic temple in the
Forum Holitorium on the one hand, and those of the temples of
Saturn and Julius Caesar and of the Regia on the other, indicate
pretty clearly the date of the building.
Its podium is faced with opus incertum, while the cella wall is
of quasi reticulatum : and the podium appears to have been faced
only with stucco, not with ashlar masonry, which is exceptional.1
To the same style and period belongs the arcade of the Horrea
Agrippiana recently discovered below the Palatine, to the south-
west of the so-called temple of Augustus.
Our knowledge of the private houses of the last half-century of
the Republic and the beginning of the Empire has of late years
been considerably increased, both by the general acceptance of
the theory that what was known as the house of Livia on the
Palatine is in reality the house of the family of the Hortensii
purchased by Augustus and by the discovery of the remains of
various other private houses, belonging probably to the end of the
Republican period, under the imperial palaces. The whole plan
1 A survey and reconstruction of the temple will be found in Hulsen’s
article in Romische Mitteilungen, X (1905), 3.
position on a cliff. The foliage of the capitals seems to have been
derived from the acanthus mollis, and their carving, as well as
that of the festoons of fruit and heads of oxen on the frieze, is of
an extremely vigorous type.
The rectangular temple at Tivoli is less well preserved than the
circular temple which stands close by. In plan it closely resembles
the temple of Fortuna Virilis, but to judge from its forms is
slightly earlier in date : and it is built entirely of hewn stone. The
temple of Fortuna at Palestrina is described below (p. 32). The
Corinthian temple of Castor and Pollux at Cori is less well
preserved than the Doric temple, having only two columns left,
but the lettering of the dedicatory inscription shows that it belongs
approximately to the same period. The capital is of the classical
Corinthian type (see Plate XXII).
It may be well to add here one or two examples of Corinthian
temples of the succeeding period—that of Julius Caesar and Augustus
in which the traditional style of construction in stone faced with
stucco is retained. We may mention the temple of Cybele on the
Palatine, where we still find under Augustus the use of peperino
coated with stucco, as in the temples of the Forum Holitorium, but
where the similarity of the cornice to that of the Ionic temple in the
Forum Holitorium on the one hand, and those of the temples of
Saturn and Julius Caesar and of the Regia on the other, indicate
pretty clearly the date of the building.
Its podium is faced with opus incertum, while the cella wall is
of quasi reticulatum : and the podium appears to have been faced
only with stucco, not with ashlar masonry, which is exceptional.1
To the same style and period belongs the arcade of the Horrea
Agrippiana recently discovered below the Palatine, to the south-
west of the so-called temple of Augustus.
Our knowledge of the private houses of the last half-century of
the Republic and the beginning of the Empire has of late years
been considerably increased, both by the general acceptance of
the theory that what was known as the house of Livia on the
Palatine is in reality the house of the family of the Hortensii
purchased by Augustus and by the discovery of the remains of
various other private houses, belonging probably to the end of the
Republican period, under the imperial palaces. The whole plan
1 A survey and reconstruction of the temple will be found in Hulsen’s
article in Romische Mitteilungen, X (1905), 3.