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View over sanctuary from Villa D´Este Temple of Hercules Victor. The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Italian: Ercole Vincitore) in Tivoli (Italy) was one of the major complexes of the Roman Republican era built on the wave of the Hellenistic cultural influence after the final Roman conquest of Greece (146 BC). [1]
The Temple of Hercules Victor (Italian: Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) or Hercules Olivarius (Latin for "Hercules the Olive-Bearer") [1] is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, the former Forum Boarium, in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely surrounded by a colonnade.
The masterpiece of late republican portraiture is the statue of the so-called "General of Tivoli" (from the sanctuary of Hercules the Victor, from the beginning of the first century BCE). The portrait is among those faithful to the realism of the Italic tradition. [9] [11]
The Temple of Hercules Victor ("Hercules the Winner") or Hercules Olivarius ("Hercules the Olive-Bearer) [3] is a circular peristyle building dating from the 2nd century BC. It consists of a colonnade of Corinthian columns arranged in a concentric ring around the cylindrical cella, resting on a tuff foundation. These elements originally ...
English: Offered for sale in July 2021 by Abbott and Holder, when it was described as "Douglas M.P. F.R.S.E. (1784?-1821), William Italy; Rome, the Temple of Hercules Victor (AKA The Temple of Vesta) and the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Pen, ink and watercolour. c.1816-1818.
Temple of Hercules Victor, Rome. The Temple of Hercules Victor, which still stands, is atypically round, as was the first Temple of Hercules Musarum near the Circus Flaminius. [8] The latter displayed fasti attributed to its founder Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, which Rüpke places among the earliest Latin antiquarian literature.
The Maison Carrée in Nîmes, one of the best-preserved Roman temples.It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the Imperial cult. The Temple of Hercules Victor, in the Forum Boarium in Rome, 2nd century BC; the entablature is lost and the roof later.
The altar was the earliest cult location for Hercules in Rome, predating the circular Temple of Hercules Victor and possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century bce. The altar was destroyed during the Great Fire of Rome in the year 64 [ 3 ] but was rebuilt and stood at least until the fourth century.