Lanuvium

Coordinates: 41°40′29″N 12°41′51″E / 41.674696°N 12.697580°E / 41.674696; 12.697580
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Lanuvium
Map of comune of Lanuvio within Lazio
Alternative nameLanuvio
LocationComune di Lanuvio
RegionLazio
TypeSettlement
History
PeriodsRoman Republic Roman Empire
CulturesAncient Rome
Site notes
Excavation datesyes
Public accessyes

Lanuvium, modern

Via Appia.[1]

Situated on an isolated hill projecting south from the main mass of the Alban Hills, Lanuvium commanded an extensive view over the low country between it and the sea.

History

Warrior tomb from Lanuvium (5th century BC), located in the Baths of Diocletian Museum, Rome
Juno Sospita
whose main center of worshipping was Lanuvium and the reverse depicts a founder myth. When a fire broke out spontaneously in the forest, a wolf brought some dry wood in his mouth and threw it upon the fire, and an eagle fanned the flame with the motion of his wings. But a fox, after wetting his tail in the river, was trying to put it out. Wolf and eagle got the upper hand and the fox went away. Bronze monuments of these animals are supposed to stand in the forum of Lanuvium.

According to legend, Lanuvium was founded by Diomedes, or by one Lanoios, an exile from Troy. The first documented traces of the settlement date from the 9th century BC and by the 6th century BC it was part of the Latin League.

The city warred against

senatus
respectively.

In the 11th c. the city became known as Civita Lavinia, a result of the confusion between it and ancient Lavinium.[2]

Cult of Juno

The portico of the Sanctuary of Juno Sospita

Lanuvium was especially noted for its rich and much venerated temple of

Mediterranean.[3][4] It possessed many other temples repaired by Antoninus Pius, who was born close by (S. H. A. Ant. Pius 1), as was Commodus
.

Prominent citizens

One prominent native of Lanuvium was

Publius Sulpicius Quirinius
, consul of 12 BC and later legate of Syria.

Monuments

Terracotta antefix with the head of a Silenus; c. 500–490 BC., from the Baths of Diocletian at Lanuvium

Remains of the ancient theatre and of the

city walls exist in the modern town, and above it is an area surrounded by a portico, in opus reticulatum, upon the north side of which is a rectangular building in opus quadratum, probably connected with the temple of Juno where archaic decorative terracottas artifacts have been found. The acropolis of the primitive city was probably on the highest point above the temple to the north. The neighborhood, which is now covered with vineyards, contains the remains of many Roman villas, one of which is traditionally attributed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius.[5]

References

  1. ^ Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, S. Gillies, T. Elliott, J. Becker (6 May 2021). "Places: 422956 (Lanuvium)". Pleiades. Retrieved December 11, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Stillwell, Richard (1976). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  3. ISBN 978-88-8265-151-0
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-978020-4
    .
  5. ^ R. Neudecker, Die Skulpturenausstattung römischer Villen in Italien (Mainz 1988) 164 ff. Cat. no. 22

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