Porticus Octaviae

Porticus Octaviae
	The Porticus Octaviae in modern times
	Porticus Octaviae Shown within Augustan Rome
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Location	Regio IX Circus Flaminius
Coordinates	41°53′32.77″N 12°28′42.72″E / 41.8924361°N 12.4785333°E
History
Builder	Augustus
Founded	Imperial periods

The Porticus Octaviae (

Temples of Juno Regina (north) and Jupiter Stator (south), as well as a library. The structure was used as a fish market

from the medieval period up to the end of the 19th century.

History

model, Museum of Roman Civilization

After celebrating his triumph for his 146 BC victory at Scarpheia during the Achaean War, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus constructed a portico around M. Aemilius Lepidus's Temple of Juno Regina near the Circus Flaminius in the southern Campus Martius and erected a new Temple of Jupiter Stator beside it. He decorated both with equestrian statues of Alexander the Great's generals brought back from Greece. This portico was known as the Portico of Metellus (Porticus Metelli) or Portico of Caecilius (Porticus Caecilii).

Marcus Claudius Marcellus, an assembly hall (Curia Octaviae), and lecture rooms (scholae). Whether these were different parts of one building or entirely different structures is uncertain. The Roman Senate met in the curia.^[1] The whole is referred to by Pliny the Elder as the works of Octavia (Octaviae opera).^[2]

The portico and its buildings burned in AD 80^[dubious – discuss] and were restored, probably by Domitian. After a second fire in 203, they were restored again by Septimius Severus and Caracalla. It was adorned with foreign marble and contained many famous works of art, enumerated in Pliny's Natural History.^[3] The structure was damaged by an earthquake in 442 when two of the destroyed columns were replaced with an archway that still stands. The church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria was built on its ruins c. 770,^{[citation needed]} the name commemorating the portico's medieval and early modern role as a fish market. The building, which lies in rione Sant'Angelo, represented the center of the medieval Roman Ghetto.

References

^ Cassius Dio LV.8; Josephus, Jewish Wars. VII.5.4
^ "Gaius Plinius Secundus, Dubius Sermo 36.15.1". latin.packhum.org. Retrieved Mar 18, 2023.
^ Pliny, xxxiv.31; xxxv.114, 139; xxxvi.15, 22, 24, 28, 29, 34, 35.

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Media related to Portico di Ottavia (Rome) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Portico Dii Consentes	Landmarks of Rome Porticus Octaviae	Succeeded by Tabularium

[1] Cassius Dio LV.8; Josephus, Jewish Wars. VII.5.4

[2] "Gaius Plinius Secundus, Dubius Sermo 36.15.1". latin.packhum.org. Retrieved Mar 18, 2023.

[3] Pliny, xxxiv.31; xxxv.114, 139; xxxvi.15, 22, 24, 28, 29, 34, 35.

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