TEMPLE OF "MINERVA HEALER"

TEMPIO DI “MINERVA MEDICA”
Via Giovanni Giolitti 409

Built in the fourth century AD
Grandiose structure maybe formerly part of the HORTI LICINIANI (Gardens of Licinius) of the emperor Licinius Gallienus (253/268) according to Filippo Coarelli

According to Federico Guidobaldi it was rebuilt for Constantine (306/337) with bricks marked with dates of the time of Maxentius (306/312) and used for the private sector of Costantine’s PALATIUM SESSORIANUM, the large urban residence of Constantine and his family

Unusual plan with ten sides and a diameter of 25 m (82 feet)
The polygonal-shaped DOME gradually assumes an hemispheric aspect 
Is often mistakenly considered a nympheum or a fountain

Among the statues found here:

A “Minerva with serpent” called “Athena Giustiniani” now in the Vatican Museums that gave the arbitrary name to the building
“Two judges in place to launch a small sack to start the races in the circus”, “Statue of dancing satyr” and “Statue of Dionysus with a panther” now on display at the Centrale Montemartini, together with the mosaic “Hunting Scenes” found in the vicinity and in part still incredibly buried under rail tracks

FORUM OF NERVA OR TRANSITORIUM

FORI IMPERIALI
Imperial Fora

Via dei Fori Imperiali

Successive extensions of the republican Roman Forum in the imperial period, with the same functions, although in larger spaces enriched with decorations, for the purpose of public utility and propaganda of the emperors

Foro di Nerva o Transitorio
Forum of Nerva or Transitorium

Begun and almost completed by Domitian (81/96), but opened by Nerva (96/98) in 97

It measured 120 x 45 m (393 x 147 feet)

It was known as "Forum Transitorium" (Passage Forum) because it took the place of the first part of the Argiletum Road and put in communication the Republican Forum of Caesar and Augustus and the Temple of Peace

At the southern entrance of the square Domitian had probably rebuild the Arch of Janus, which replaced an earlier arch with four sides

In the short side at the north end there was the Temple of Minerva, goddess dear to Domitian, destroyed in 1606 by Paul V Borghese (1605/21) to get building material for the Fountain of the Acqua Paola

The only columns surviving are the so-called "Two Colonnacce" (ugly columns) with a relief in the attic representing "Minerva and frieze with female figures linked to the myth of Arachne"

CIRCUS FLAMINIUS

CIRCO FLAMINIO

Campo Marzio - zona Piazza Cairoli/Piazza delle Cinque Scole

220 BC for Caius Flaminius Nepos democratic leader. He was also the sponsor of the Flaminian Way

It was an area always connected to the plebs: the Concilia Plebis (meetings) were taking place here as well as the Ludi Plebeii (games) and some of the temples that used to surround it were on the Aventine Hill, the plebs' hill

The Circus Flaminius was also the gathering place for the beginning of the triumphal marches

Many temples used to surround it. Three were made of marble and built by the Greek architect Hermodoros from Salamina

Next to the Theatre of Marcellus

APOLLO SOSIANO 431 BC Cneo Iulius rebuilt in 179 BC by Marcus Fulvius Nobiliore

BELLONA 296 BC Appius Claudius Cieco

PIETÀ 181 BC Marcus Acilius Glabrione

DIANA 179 BC Marcus Emilius Lepido

In the Porticus Metelli (later Porticus of Ottavia)

IUNO regina 179 BC Marcus Emilius Lepido

IUPPITER STATORE 146 BC Quintus Cecilius Metello Macedonico

Other temples

VULCANO dating is uncertain but not later than the III century BC

HERCULES OF THE MUSES 189/179 BC Marcus Fulvius Nobiliore

MARS about 135 BC Brutus Callaicus, corresponding to the church of S. Salvatore in Campo

NEPTUNE already existing in the III century BC and rebuilt in 125 BC by Cneus Domitius Enobarbo, corresponding to the Manili's House

HERCULES PROTECTOR by Silla

CASTORS about 70 BC maybe by Metellus Pius

Other buildings

PORTICUS OF OCTAVIA 168 BC Cneus Octavius

PORTICUS METELLI (later Porticus of Octavia) 146 BC Quintus Cecilius Metellus Macedonicus

PORTICUS PHILIPPI 29 BC Lucius Marcius Philippus