Temple of Tellus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 22, 2024 08:40 AM
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History
The Temple of Tellus at Rome was located on the Carinae.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/241048343
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- Temple of Tellus located on Esquilinus Mons (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Tellus part of (regional) Regio IV (Templum Pacis) (unspecified date range)
- Temple of Tellus located at Roma (unspecified date range)
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There are multiple versions of the temple's origin story. One claims that P. Sempronius Sophus vowed the temple in 268 B.C. during a battle with the Picenes. Another version suggests that the Roman people built the sanctuary. It was located on a portion of the land once owned by Spurius Cassius who had been put to death for the crime of adfectatio regni in 485 B.C. Following Cassius' execution, his house was razed and his lands declared forfeit,
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Temple of Tellus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/241048343> [accessed: 23 April 2024]
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