Via della Caffarella
Second century AD, mausoleum shaped as a temple considered to be the tomb of Annia Regilla wife of Herod Atticus (101/177)
Herodes Atticus was a wealthy Athenian chosen by Antoninus Pius (138/161) as tutor to his adopted children Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and charged with the killing of his wife Annia Regilla who had brought him a dowry of properties on the Appian Way
After being acquitted he gave himself to blatant manifestations of mourning
The name of the building derives from the mistaken identification with the temple of the “Return” the divinity that would have forced Hannibal to go back
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