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The Temple of Jupiter Anxur (Italian: Tempio di Giove Anxur) is an Ancient Roman temple that is located in Terracina, Italy. [1] The temple was built between the mid-second and mid-first century BC and is dedicated to Jupiter, who was the protector of Anxur. [2] It was located along the Via Appia which passed through the city of Terracina and ...
Terracina appears in ancient sources with two names: the Latin Tarracina and the Volscian Anxur. [3] The latter is the name of Jupiter himself as a youth (Iuppiter Anxur or Anxurus), and was the tutelary god of the city, venerated on the Mons Neptunius (current Monte S. Angelo), where a temple dedicated to him still exists (see below).
The cathedral was built in the 5th-6th centuries using the remains of a Roman temple with five naves in the city forum.The building underwent many alterations and restorations, among them those of the 11th century (reflecting its change of dedication from Saint Peter to the city's patron saint Caesarius of Terracina in 1074), of the 13th century and above all the extreme restoration in the ...
The cathedral of Terracina, dedicated to S. Cesareo, was built in the 11th and 12th centuries, [17] on foundations of an ancient Roman temple, dedicated to Apollo, [18] or to the Goddess Roma and Augustus. [19] It was served and administered by a corporation, the Chapter, composed of twelve Canons, presided over by the Archpriest.
Anxurus was an Italian divinity, who was worshipped in a grove near Anxur (modern Terracina) together with the goddess Feronia. He was regarded as a youthful Jupiter, and Feronia as Juno. [1] On coins his name appears as "Axur" or "Anxur". [2] [3] There exists in Terracina the ruins of a temple to Jupiter Anxurus. [4]
The "Passio" (story of martyrdom) of Saint Caesarius is set in Terracina, harbor town near Rome and Naples, under the pagan emperor Trajan (r. 98–117). Caesarius, belonging to the ancient and illustrious gens Julia, after a shipwreck, arrived in Terracina to preach the Gospel to poor people. In this Roman city, each year on the first day of ...
[8]: 8.564 A stone at the Terracina shrine was inscribed "let deserving slaves sit down so that they may stand up free." Livy notes [9] that in 217 BCE freed women collected money as a gift for Feronia. [3] (p 109) Some sources state that slaves were set free at her temple near Terracina. [10] [full citation needed]
San Cesareo in Palatio or San Caesareo de Appia [san tʃeˈzaːreo de ˈappja] is a titular church in Rome dedicated to Saint Caesarius of Terracina, a 2nd-century deacon and martyr. It is located near Casina del Cardinal Bessarione on Via di Porta San Sebastiano and the beginning of the Appian Way .