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The Temple of Hercules Victor, in the Forum Boarium
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The Temple of Hercules Victor, in the Forum Boarium

The Temple of Hercules Victor or Hercules Olivarius, located in the Forum Boarium in Rome, is a round temple of Greek 'peripteros' (enclosed chamber) design. Dating from the 2nd century BCE, it is 14.8m in diameter and consists of a circular wall within a circle of 20 10.66m tall Corinthian columns. Image File history File links The Temple of Hercules in the Forum Boarium (Rome, Italy). ... Image File history File links The Temple of Hercules in the Forum Boarium (Rome, Italy). ... The Forum Boarium was the cattle market of ancient Rome. ... The Forum Boarium was the cattle market of ancient Rome. ... Corinthian can refer to: Corinth Corinthian order Corinthian league First Epistle to the Corinthians or Second Epistle to the Corinthians (books of the Bible) Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, a football club in Brazil Corinthians F.C., a former English football club, now part of Corinthian-Casuals F.C. The Corinthian...


This design caused many to mistake it for a temple of Vesta, but it recently has been determined to be a temple of Hercules. Vesta may refer to: The goddess Vesta in Roman mythology equivalent to Greek Hestia The asteroid 4 Vesta, named for the Roman deity. ... Hercules and Cacus, by Baccio Bandinelli, 1525 - 1534. ...


By 1132 CE the temple was a church, known as St. Stephen 'of the carriages'. Additional restorations (and a fresco over the altar) were made in 1475. A plaque in the floor was dedicated by Sixtus IV. In the 17th Century the church was renamed St. Mary 'of the Sun'. Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere (July 21, 1414 - August 12, 1484) was Pope from 1471 to 1484, essentially a Renaissance prince, the Sixtus of the Sistine Chapel where the team of artists he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance to Rome with a masterpiece. ...


The temple was recognized officially as an ancient monument in 1935.


Source: Claridge, Amanda, Oxford Archaeological Guides - Rome, Oxford University Press, 1998


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