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| ⚫ | The '''Temple of Jupiter Invictus''' (Latin: {{lang|la|Aedes Iovis Invicti}}, {{lit|Temple of Jupiter the Unconquered}}), sometimes known as the '''Temple of Jupiter Victor''' (Latin: {{lang|la|Aedes Iovis Victoris}}, {{lit|Temple of Jupiter the Conqueror}}) was a temple on the [[Palatine Hill]] of [[ancient Rome]]. |
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| ⚫ | The '''Temple of Jupiter Invictus''' (Latin: {{lang|la|Aedes Iovis Invicti}}, {{lit|Temple of Jupiter the Unconquered}}), sometimes known as the '''Temple of Jupiter Victor''' (Latin: {{lang|la|Aedes Iovis Victoris}}, {{lit|Temple of Jupiter the Conqueror}}), was a temple on the [[Palatine Hill]] of [[ancient Rome]]. |
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| ⚫ | The date of the temple's construction is uncertain, but it came to eclipse an earlier temple of Jupiter Victor on the Quirinal Hill, with which it is sometimes confused. |
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| ⚫ | The date of the temple's construction is uncertain, but it came to eclipse an earlier temple of Jupiter Victor on the Quirinal Hill, with which it is sometimes confused. It was credited as the sight of several divine portents during the imperial period, and may have been the shrine briefly dedicated to the Syrian god [[Elagabalus (deity)|Elagabal]] by the emperor [[Elagabalus]] in the third century CE. Since the 1950s, the temple has been considered completely lost. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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[[File:Jupiter J1a.jpg|alt=Marble statue of a bearded man, standing, with his right arm raised above his head.|thumb|Marble statue of Jupiter, with his characteristic attributes of thunderbolt and eagle, made around 150& |
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The temple was dedicated to [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], the king of the Roman gods. According to the Roman poet [[Ovid]], writing between 1 and 8 CE, the temple was dedicated on the [[Ides (calendar)|Ides]] of June (that is, 13 June).{{refn|{{harvnb|Coarelli|1997|p=143}}, citing ''Fasti'' 6.650.}} The temple's construction is not mentioned in the comprehensive history of Rome written by the historian [[Livy]] at the end of the first century BCE, leading the Italian archaeologist [[Filippo Coarelli]] to suggested that its construction took place either between 292 and 218 BCE or after 167 BCE, as these periods are not covered by the surviving books of Livy's narrative.{{sfn|Coarelli|1997|p=143}} |
The temple was dedicated to [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], the king of the Roman gods. According to the Roman poet [[Ovid]], writing between 1 and 8 CE, the temple was dedicated on the [[Ides (calendar)|Ides]] of June (that is, 13 June).{{refn|{{harvnb|Coarelli|1997|p=143}}, citing ''Fasti'' 6.650.}} The temple's construction is not mentioned in the comprehensive history of Rome written by the historian [[Livy]] at the end of the first century BCE, leading the Italian archaeologist [[Filippo Coarelli]] to suggested that its construction took place either between 292 and 218 BCE or after 167 BCE, as these periods are not covered by the surviving books of Livy's narrative.{{sfn|Coarelli|1997|p=143}} |
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An older temple to Jupiter was vowed by the Roman commander and [[Roman consul|consul]] [[Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus]] during the [[Battle of Sentinum]] in 295 BCE, and was built on the [[Quirinal Hill]] over the next few years.{{sfn|Coarelli|1997|p=143}} This temple was dedicated on the Ides of April.{{refn|{{harvnb|Platner|Ashby|1929|p=306}}, citing ''Fasti'' 4.621. For the date of the ''Fasti'', see {{harvnb|Newlands|1995|p=3}}.}} By the imperial period (that is, by 27 BCE), the epithets {{lang|la|Victor}} and {{lang|la|Invictus}} both referred to the temple on the Palatine, originally known as {{lang|la|Invictus}}, and any distinction with the Quirinal cult of Jupiter Victor was lost.{{sfn|Coarelli|1997|p=143}} |
An older temple to Jupiter was vowed by the Roman commander and [[Roman consul|consul]] [[Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus]] during the [[Battle of Sentinum]] in 295 BCE, and was built on the [[Quirinal Hill]] over the next few years.{{sfn|Coarelli|1997|p=143}} This temple was dedicated on the Ides of April.{{refn|{{harvnb|Platner|Ashby|1929|p=306}}, citing ''Fasti'' 4.621. For the date of the ''Fasti'', see {{harvnb|Newlands|1995|p=3}}.}} By the imperial period (that is, by 27 BCE), the epithets {{lang|la|Victor}} and {{lang|la|Invictus}} both referred to the temple on the Palatine, originally known as {{lang|la|Invictus}}, and any distinction with the Quirinal cult of Jupiter Victor was lost. The two temples are still sometimes confused in modern sources.{{sfn|Coarelli|1997|p=143}} |
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It has been assumed that this was the temple that was redesigned during the reign of [[Domitian]] ({{reigned|81|96 CE}}) as part of his massive rebuilding works on the Palatine, and which sat at the entrance of the imperial residence known as the ''[[Domus Augustana]]'' beside a monumental arch. It is further thought that this was the temple (the [[Elagabalium]]) that the emperor [[Elagabalus]] ({{reigned|218|222 CE}}) rededicated to his patron deity, the Syrian sun-god [[Elagabalus (deity)|Elagabal]], which Elagabalus's successor [[Severus Alexander]] restored to the worship of Jupiter |
It has been assumed that this was the temple that was redesigned during the reign of [[Domitian]] ({{reigned|81|96 CE}}) as part of his massive rebuilding works on the Palatine, and which sat at the entrance of the imperial residence known as the ''[[Domus Augustana]]'' beside a monumental arch. It is further thought that this was the temple (the [[Elagabalium]]) that the emperor [[Elagabalus]] ({{reigned|218|222 CE}}) rededicated to his patron deity, the Syrian sun-god [[Elagabalus (deity)|Elagabal]], which Elagabalus's successor [[Severus Alexander]] restored to the worship of Jupiter.{{sfn|Claridge|2010|p=156}} |
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The third-century Roman historian [[Cassius Dio]] recorded that the temple had been struck by lightning, a phenomenon generally regarded in ancient Rome as a divine portent sent by Jupiter, in 42 BCE. The consuls summoned the [[Roman Senate|senate]] to meet in the temple following the assassination of the emperor [[Caligula]] in 41 CE. According to Dio, the temple's doors opened spontaneously before the assassination of Caligula's successor, [[Claudius]], in 54 CE, which was retrospectively taken as an omen of his death.{{refn|Platner|Ashby|1929|pages=306–307}}. Dio mentions the lightning strike at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/47*.html 47.40.2] and the omen of the opening doors at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/61*.html#60-35 60.35].}} |
The third-century Roman historian [[Cassius Dio]] recorded that the temple had been struck by lightning, a phenomenon generally regarded in ancient Rome as a divine portent sent by Jupiter, in 42 BCE. The consuls summoned the [[Roman Senate|senate]] to meet in the temple following the assassination of the emperor [[Caligula]] in 41 CE. According to Dio, the temple's doors opened spontaneously before the assassination of Caligula's successor, [[Claudius]], in 54 CE, which was retrospectively taken as an omen of his death.{{refn|{{harvnb|Platner|Ashby|1929|pages=306–307}}. Dio mentions the lightning strike at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/47*.html 47.40.2] and the omen of the opening doors at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/61*.html#60-35 60.35].}} |
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A passage of the [[Late antiquity|late antique]] {{lang|la|[[Notitia Dignitatum]]}} has been interpreted as giving tentative evidence for the temple's survival into the third century CE.{{sfn|Platner|Ashby|1929|pages=306–307}} Until the 1950s, the ruins currently identified as those of the [[Temple of Apollo Palatinus]] were commonly believed to have been the remains of this temple.{{sfn|Coarelli|2014|p=142}} However, further excavation of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus disproved this connection,{{Sfnm|1a1=Coarelli|1y=2014|1p=143|2a1=Hill|2y=1962|2p=131}} and it is currently considered that no secure identification between the temple and any known ruins can be made.{{sfn|Platner|Ashby|1929|pages=306–307}} |
A passage of the [[Late antiquity|late antique]] {{lang|la|[[Notitia Dignitatum]]}} has been interpreted as giving tentative evidence for the temple's survival into the third century CE.{{sfn|Platner|Ashby|1929|pages=306–307}} Until the 1950s, the ruins currently identified as those of the [[Temple of Apollo Palatinus]] were commonly believed to have been the remains of this temple.{{sfn|Coarelli|2014|p=142}} However, further excavation of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus disproved this connection,{{Sfnm|1a1=Coarelli|1y=2014|1p=143|2a1=Hill|2y=1962|2p=131}} and it is currently considered that no secure identification between the temple and any known ruins can be made.{{sfn|Platner|Ashby|1929|pages=306–307}} |
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== Bibliography == |
== Bibliography == |
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* {{cite book|last=Claridge| first=Amanda| author-link=Amanda Claridge| year=2010| orig-date=1998| title=Rome| series=Oxford Archaeological Guides| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-954683-1}} |
* {{cite book|last=Claridge| first=Amanda| author-link=Amanda Claridge| year=2010| orig-date=1998| title=Rome| series=Oxford Archaeological Guides| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-954683-1}} |
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* {{cite book| last=Coarelli| first=Filippo |author-link=Filippo Coarelli| year=1997| chapter=Iuppiter Invictus| lang=it| title=Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae| volume=3| editor-last=Steinby| editor-first=Eva Margareta| editor-link1=Margareta Steinby|publisher=Edizioni Quazar| place=Rome|isbn=978-88-7140-096-9| page=143}} |
* {{cite book| last=Coarelli| first=Filippo |author-link=Filippo Coarelli| year=1997| chapter=Iuppiter Invictus| lang=it| title=Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae| volume=3| editor-last=Steinby| editor-first=Eva Margareta| editor-link1=Margareta Steinby|publisher=Edizioni Quazar| place=Rome|isbn=978-88-7140-096-9| page=143}} |
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* {{cite journal| last=Hill| first=Philip V.| year=1962| title=The Temples and Statues of Apollo in Rome| journal=The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society| volume=2| pages=125–142| jstor=42662641}} |
* {{cite journal| last=Hill| first=Philip V.| year=1962| title=The Temples and Statues of Apollo in Rome| journal=The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society| volume=2| pages=125–142| jstor=42662641}} |
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* {{cite book| last=Newlands| first=Carole E.|author-link=Carole E. Newlands| year=1995| title=Playing with Time: Ovid and the ''Fasti''| publisher=Cornell University Press| place=New York| isbn=978-0-8014-3080-0}} |
* {{cite book| last=Newlands| first=Carole E.|author-link=Carole E. Newlands| year=1995| title=Playing with Time: Ovid and the ''Fasti''| publisher=Cornell University Press| place=New York| isbn=978-0-8014-3080-0}} |
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* {{cite book| last1=Platner| first1=Samuel Ball| author-link1=Samuel Ball Platner| last2=Ashby| first2=Thomas| author-link2=Thomas Ashby| year=1929| title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=London| isbn=978-0-19-925649-5| url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Jupiter_Victor.html| access-date=2023-06-17 <!--Can't be archived with Wayback -->}} |
* {{cite book| last1=Platner| first1=Samuel Ball| author-link1=Samuel Ball Platner| last2=Ashby| first2=Thomas| author-link2=Thomas Ashby (archaeologist)| year=1929| title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome| publisher=Oxford University Press| place=London| isbn=978-0-19-925649-5| url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Jupiter_Victor.html| access-date=2023-06-17 <!--Can't be archived with Wayback -->}} |
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[[Category:Temples on the Palatine|Jupiter Invictus]] |
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Latest revision as of 07:27, 1 February 2024
The Temple of Jupiter Invictus (Latin: Aedes Iovis Invicti, lit. 'Temple of Jupiter the Unconquered'), sometimes known as the Temple of Jupiter Victor (Latin: Aedes Iovis Victoris, lit. 'Temple of Jupiter the Conqueror'), was a temple on the Palatine Hill of ancient Rome.
The date of the temple's construction is uncertain, but it came to eclipse an earlier temple of Jupiter Victor on the Quirinal Hill, with which it is sometimes confused. It was credited as the sight of several divine portents during the imperial period, and may have been the shrine briefly dedicated to the Syrian god Elagabal by the emperor Elagabalus in the third century CE. Since the 1950s, the temple has been considered completely lost.
History[edit]
The temple was dedicated to Jupiter, the king of the Roman gods. According to the Roman poet Ovid, writing between 1 and 8 CE, the temple was dedicated on the Ides of June (that is, 13 June).[1] The temple's construction is not mentioned in the comprehensive history of Rome written by the historian Livy at the end of the first century BCE, leading the Italian archaeologist Filippo Coarelli to suggested that its construction took place either between 292 and 218 BCE or after 167 BCE, as these periods are not covered by the surviving books of Livy's narrative.[2]
An older temple to Jupiter was vowed by the Roman commander and consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus during the Battle of Sentinum in 295 BCE, and was built on the Quirinal Hill over the next few years.[2] This temple was dedicated on the Ides of April.[3] By the imperial period (that is, by 27 BCE), the epithets Victor and Invictus both referred to the temple on the Palatine, originally known as Invictus, and any distinction with the Quirinal cult of Jupiter Victor was lost. The two temples are still sometimes confused in modern sources.[2]
It has been assumed that this was the temple that was redesigned during the reign of Domitian (r. 81–96 CE) as part of his massive rebuilding works on the Palatine, and which sat at the entrance of the imperial residence known as the Domus Augustana beside a monumental arch. It is further thought that this was the temple (the Elagabalium) that the emperor Elagabalus (r. 218–222 CE) rededicated to his patron deity, the Syrian sun-god Elagabal, which Elagabalus's successor Severus Alexander restored to the worship of Jupiter.[4]
The third-century Roman historian Cassius Dio recorded that the temple had been struck by lightning, a phenomenon generally regarded in ancient Rome as a divine portent sent by Jupiter, in 42 BCE. The consuls summoned the senate to meet in the temple following the assassination of the emperor Caligula in 41 CE. According to Dio, the temple's doors opened spontaneously before the assassination of Caligula's successor, Claudius, in 54 CE, which was retrospectively taken as an omen of his death.[5]
A passage of the late antique Notitia Dignitatum has been interpreted as giving tentative evidence for the temple's survival into the third century CE.[6] Until the 1950s, the ruins currently identified as those of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus were commonly believed to have been the remains of this temple.[7] However, further excavation of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus disproved this connection,[8] and it is currently considered that no secure identification between the temple and any known ruins can be made.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Coarelli 1997, p. 143, citing Fasti 6.650.
- ^ a b c Coarelli 1997, p. 143.
- ^ Platner & Ashby 1929, p. 306, citing Fasti 4.621. For the date of the Fasti, see Newlands 1995, p. 3.
- ^ Claridge 2010, p. 156.
- ^ Platner & Ashby 1929, pp. 306–307. Dio mentions the lightning strike at 47.40.2 and the omen of the opening doors at 60.35.
- ^ a b Platner & Ashby 1929, pp. 306–307.
- ^ Coarelli 2014, p. 142.
- ^ Coarelli 2014, p. 143; Hill 1962, p. 131.
Bibliography[edit]
- Claridge, Amanda (2010) [1998]. Rome. Oxford Archaeological Guides. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954683-1.
- Coarelli, Filippo (1997). "Iuppiter Invictus". In Steinby, Eva Margareta (ed.). Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (in Italian). Vol. 3. Rome: Edizioni Quazar. p. 143. ISBN 978-88-7140-096-9.
- Coarelli, Filippo (2014). Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide. Translated by Clauss, James J.; Harmon, Daniel P. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28209-4. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- Hill, Philip V. (1962). "The Temples and Statues of Apollo in Rome". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 2: 125–142. JSTOR 42662641.
- Newlands, Carole E. (1995). Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti. New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-3080-0.
- Platner, Samuel Ball; Ashby, Thomas (1929). A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-925649-5. Retrieved 17 June 2023.