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The Tomb of Caecilia Metella (Italian: Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella) is a mausoleum located just outside Rome at the three mile marker of the Via Appia.It was built during the 1st century BC to honor Caecilia Metella, who was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, a consul in 69 BC, and the wife of Marcus Licinius Crassus who served under Julius Caesar and was the son of the ...
Caecilia Metella was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, consul in 123 BC. [2] [3] She was possibly married to Appius Claudius Pulcher, a politician of an old, somewhat impoverished, patrician family. As a member of an important family and married into another, Metella would be one of Rome's most esteemed matronas.
In 53 BC, Metella Celer was married to Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, a conservative politician, allied to her father's family. Like her mother, Metella did not content herself with a simple married life. Briefly after the wedding she started an affair with Publius Cornelius Dolabella, a man of the opposite political spectrum. Spinther ...
The idea of a great archaeological park between the Roman Forum and the Alban Hills dates back to Napoleonic times. Following initial restoration work on one tomb by Antonio Canova in 1807 and 1808 and subsequent restoration in the area of the Tomb of Caecilia Metella by Giuseppe Valadier, it was Pope Pius IX who took the first major steps to organize the archaeological ruins of the Appian Way ...
Caecilia Metella (died around 80 BC) was a Roman matron at the beginning of the 1st century BC. The daughter of the pontifex maximus Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus , she married two of the most prominent politicians of the period, first the princeps senatus Marcus Aemilius Scaurus , then Lucius Cornelius Sulla .
The Aurelian Walls Porta Appia Porta Portese Porta Maggiore and the Tomb of Eurysaces. Wall of Romulus; ... Tomb of Caecilia Metella; Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker ...
Marcus married Caecilia Metella, the daughter of Metellus Creticus. Her tomb commemorates their marriage. Her tomb commemorates their marriage. Their son, the Marcus Licinius Crassus who was consul in 30 BC , seemed in his ambition and ability to have resembled his uncle Publius more than his father, in the reckoning made of the evidence by ...
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