{"id":15322,"date":"2011-11-18T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15322"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:15:51","slug":"the-roman-forum-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15322","title":{"rendered":"The Roman Forum &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving through the Roman Forum to the southeast, one passes the Tempio del Divo Giulio (Temple of Caesar). Construction of this temple was begun after the Roman Senate deified Julius Caesar and was dedicated to the cult of a comet that appeared soon after Caesar was assassinated. This comet was considered to be the soul of Julius Caesar.<\/p>\n<p>Close to the Tempio del Divo Giulio is the Tempio di Vesta (Temple of Vesta). Here, the Vestal Virgins tended the fires of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempio dei Castori (Temple of Castor and Pollux) has only three columns remaining. It was built to commemorate the Roman victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 495 BC. According to legend, Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Zeus and Leda, appeared on the battlefield to aid the Romans.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the Tempio di Antonino e Faustina (Temple of Antonino and Faustina) was begun in 141 AD by the Emperor Antoninus Pius in honor of his deceased wife Faustina the Elder. It survives today because it was later converted to the Roman Catholic Church San Lorenzo in Miranda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Templio-del-Divo-Giulio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15323\" title=\"Tempio del Divo Giulio\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Templio-del-Divo-Giulio.jpg\" alt=\"Tempio del Divo Giulio\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Templio-del-Divo-Giulio.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Templio-del-Divo-Giulio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Templio-del-Divo-Giulio-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tempio del Divo Giulio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Tempio del Divo Giulio (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aedes-Vestae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15324\" title=\"Templo di Vesta\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aedes-Vestae.jpg\" alt=\"Templo di Vesta\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aedes-Vestae.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aedes-Vestae-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aedes-Vestae-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Templo di Vesta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Tempio di Vesta (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Castor-and-Pollux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15325\" title=\"Tempio dei Castori\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Castor-and-Pollux.jpg\" alt=\"Tempio dei Castori\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Castor-and-Pollux.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Castor-and-Pollux-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Castor-and-Pollux-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tempio dei Castori<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Tempio dei Castori (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Antoninus-and-Faustina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15326\" title=\"Tempio di Antonino e Faustina\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Antoninus-and-Faustina.jpg\" alt=\"Tempio di Antonino e Faustina\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Antoninus-and-Faustina.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Antoninus-and-Faustina-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Antoninus-and-Faustina-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tempio di Antonino e Faustina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Tempio di Antonino e Faustina (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving through the Roman Forum to the southeast, one passes the Tempio del Divo Giulio (Temple of Caesar). 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