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The Temple of Venus and Roma is located on the Velian Hill between the Colosseum and the Forum Romanum. It was dedicated to the goddesses Venus Felix ("Venus the Bringer of Good Fortune") and Roma Aeterna ("Eternal Rome"). Name: In Latin Templum Veneris et Romae Located: Next To The Colosseum
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Temple of Venus and Roma Another prominent historic building you will encounter on your way is the Temple of Venus and Roma. The temple was considered to be the largest one in Ancient Rome. The construction of this temple was initiated in 121, and Emperor Hadrian personally took over the architecture plan of the construction.
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Under the reign of Titus, in 80 AD, a large fire destroyed the city and the entire Forum and the Temple of Venus Genetrix, which was later rebuilt by the Roman Emperor Domitian and Trajan finally restored the temple in 113 AD.
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Go to the interactive map to locate the Temple of Venus and Rome and establish some basic facts about it: where was it located? what building was on the site before the temple? when was it dedicated? (Think about when this was in the context of the periods when Hadrian was in Rome rather than travelling around the empire.)
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The adjacent temple dedicated to Bacchus is exceptional; it is richly and abundantly decorated and of impressive dimensions with its monumental gate sculpted with Bacchic figures. The Round Temple or Temple of Venus differs in its originality of layout as well as its refinement and harmonious forms, in a city where other sanctuaries are marked by monumental structures.
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What remains of ancient Rome's largest-known temple, the Temple of Venus and Rome, stands next to the Colosseum, one of the most impressive remains on the Roman Forum. Built by the Emperor Hadrian and dedicated to Venus and Roma, it stood atop a high platform where the entrance to Nero's Domus Aurea once stood.
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A temple was dedicated to Venus Erycina on the Capitol in 215 bce and a second outside the Colline gate in 181 bce. The latter developed in a way reminiscent of the temple at Eryx with its harlots, becoming the place of worship of Roman courtesans, hence the title of dies meretricum ("prostitutes' day") attached to April 23, the day of its foundation.
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The temple of Venus and Rome was the largest known temple of ancient Rome. Located in the eastern part of the Roman Forum, it occupied all the space between the basilica of Maxentius and the Colosseum. It was dedicated to the goddesses Venus Felix and Roma Aeterna. The architect of the temple was the emperor Hadrian himself.
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Tempio Venere On a high base overlooking the Colosseum Valley stands the temple that Hadrian wanted to dedicate to the goddess Roma Aeterna and the goddess Venus Felix. It is the largest sacred building built by the Romans, and one of the largest in antiquity.
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The Temple of Venus and Roma ( Latin: Templum Veneris et Romae) is thought to have been the largest temple in Ancient Rome. Located on the Velian Hill, between the eastern edge of the Forum Romanum and the Colosseum, in Rome, it was dedicated to the goddesses Venus Felix ("Venus the Bringer of Good Fortune") and Roma Aeterna ("Eternal Rome").
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The Temple of Venus and Rome was one of Rome's most colossal temples. It was located at the far east side of the Forum Romanum, near the Colosseum. It was dedicated to the goddesses Venus Felix (Venus the Bringer of Good Fortune) and Roma Aeterna (Eternal Rome). The designer was emperor Hadrian. Construction on the temple began in AD 121.
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Temple of Venus and Roma Comments are closed. The Temple of Venus and Roma, in the Forum Romanum, was the largest temple (145 metres by 100 metres) ever erected in Ancient Rome.
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The colossal Temple of Venus and Rome was one of Rome's largest imperial temples. It essentially enveloped the Velia Hill, next to the Palatine and overlooking the Colosseum valley. Hadrian constructed this temple dedicated to two deities, necessitating its two cellae, back to back, for each cult statue. Maxentius almost entirely rebuilt the temple, on an even more magnificent scale.
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Temple of Venus Some two hundred meters southeast of the altars on the Great Court of the temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, and separated from it by a colonnaded street, was the complex of Venus and the Muses. It is a more or less square field - in fact, trapezoidal - surrounded by a colonnade; on the field are two small shrines.
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The Venus Pompeiana Project (VPP) is a collaboration between the University of Missouri-Columbia and Mount Allison University, under the auspices of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, to resume study of the Sanctuary of Venus at Pompeii. View of the temple and sanctuary of Venus in 1900 after Mau's excavations (with Mount Vesuvius in the background)
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The Temple of Venus and Rome (Templum Veneris et Romae) is thought to have been the largest temple in Ancient Rome. The architect was the emperor Hadrian and construction began in 121 CE. It was officially inaugurated by Hadrian in 135 CE, and finished in 141 CE under Antoninus Pius.