Antium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Ingrid Luo, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
May 08, 2023 09:01 AM
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History
Antium ranked as one of the most important and most powerful centers of Latium and was captured by Rome at the close of the Latin War in the fourth century B.C. Imperial Antium was well known for its number of coastal villas.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422837
41.44795, 12.628995
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 6943 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Antium located on Via Severiana (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Antium part of (administrative) tribus Voturia (550 BC - AD 640)
- Longula located near Antium (unspecified date range)
- Roman theater at Antium located at Antium (unspecified date range)
- Untitled located at Antium (30 BC - AD 300)
- Villa di Nerone located at Antium (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C4 Antium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Anzio. According to Tacitus (Ann. 15.39), this was the location where Nero was during the Great Fire of Rome (64 AD).
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Ingrid Luo, and Tom Elliott, 'Antium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422837> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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