Carinae

Carinae was in ancient times the name for the ( south- ) western slopes of the Esquiline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome classic. The Carinae also included the slopes for Subura and the valley in which the Colosseum was built.

Together with the adjacent top of the Esquiline was the area originally Fagutal. It took its later name probably from the resemblance of the foothills to the keel of ships (Latin carina ), but possibly also by appropriately designed buildings there. On the Carinae, there were remains of an ancient city wall, which was probably even older than the Servian Wall.

The most famous building was a temple of the goddess Tellus, which was built as a votive offering, which the consul Publius Sempronius Sophus had done during a battle 268 BC. From Quintus Tullius Cicero, he was restored to 54 BC. In the temple, which was occasionally used for meetings of the Senate, to representation of Italy was a ( card-like? ).

In addition, for example, Quintus Cicero settled in the Republic there many members of the aristocracy. It is known especially a large house of Pompey, which later Mark Antony and then the Roman emperors was ( temporarily Tiberius lived there).

• Geography ( Rome)
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