The Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus Mons), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the famous seven hills of Rome, the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad: the gods Jupiter, his wife Juno and their daughter Minerva. The temple was started by Rome's last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and was considered one of the largest and the most beautiful temples in the city. When the CelticGauls raided Rome in 390 BC, the Capitoline Hill was the one section of the city to evade capture by the barbarians.
The English word capitol derives from Capitoline Hill.
Since the 16th century, the Campidoglio has been transformed by Michelangelo's palazzi.
External link
Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/-Texts/PLATOP*/Capitolinus.html) Capitoline Hill
But these resemblances must be resolved in the sense that the "Tractatus" are the originals, for finally Dom Wilgory showed that Gregory of Elvira is their true author, by a comparison especially with the five homilies of Gregory on the Canticle of Canticles (in Heine's "Bibliotheca Anecdotorum" Leipzig, 1848).
The followers of Novatian named themselves katharoi, or Puritans, and affected to call the Catholic Church Apostaticum, Synedrium, or Capitolinum.
They were found in every province, and in some places were very numerous.
Feeds |
Contact