Antium

Antium was, in Antiquity, a city and a port of the Latium (today Anzio), and which was the capital of the Volsques until its conquest by the Romains in 468 av. J. - C..

The patrician Coriolan was exiled with Antium (where Shakespeare locates several scenes of its tragedy Coriolan ), and it is from there that it took the head of the forces volscians. After the last unhappy revolt, the city was shaven and became a Roman colony in 338 av. J. - C. (Tite-Live, delivers VIII, chap.14); the Rostre S of the ships of Antium decorated the platform with the Roman Forum which became famous thanks to this tribuna rostrata . During the civil war, Antium took the party of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, and was plundered by the troops of Marius, in 87 av. J. - C..

Later, at the end of the Roman republic, Antium became a balneal vacation resort run for the Roman patricians, at only one day of voyage, to be held just rather far remotely of the riots and the agitation of Rome. When Cicéron returned from its exile, it is in Antium that it gathered the devastated remainders of its libraries, where its rollers would be in safety. Powerful Romains was made build splendid villas in seaside. Mécène had a villa with Antium; the emperors Caligula and Néron were born in Antium; one can always visit the ruins the villa of Néron today. The Fanciulla d' Anzio, the Gladiator Borghèse (Museum of Louvre) and the Apollon of the View-point (Museum Pio-Clementino, in the Vatican) all were discovered in the ruins of the villas of Antium.

Among these villas, most famous was the Villa of Néron with Antium . It extended along the coast from the course from Antium, on 800 meters of sea front. Néron shaved the old villa, where Auguste had received a delegation of Rome come to acclaim it Pater patriae (Father of the fatherland) to rebuild on his foundations a villa of a more imperial dimension. The villa of Néron was used by all its successors, until the Sévères.

One saw in Antium two famous temples, one of Esculape, the other of the Fortune. A little in the east was a temple of Neptune (today Nettuno).

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External bonds

  • the villa of Italian Néron (; illustrated rebuilding of the villa)

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