Temple of Augustus
Numerous temples of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, were built in the territories of the Roman Empire; sixteen are known in Italia alone.[1] They included the following:
- Temple of Divus Augustus, Rome - the principal temple of the Augustan imperial cult
- Temple of Divus Augustus, Nola, Italy
- Monumentum Ancyranum, or the Temple of Augustus and Rome in Ancyra (modern Ankara, Turkey)
- Temple of Augustus, Caesarea Maritima, Israel
- Temple of Augustus, Ephesus, Turkey
- Temple of Augustus, Pula, Croatia
- Temple of Augustus, Tarragona, Spain
- Temple of Augustus, Barcelona
- Temple of Augustus, Muziris (near Cochin), India
References
- ↑ Ittai Gradel, Emperor Worship and Roman Religion, p. 338. Oxford Classical Monographs, Clarendon Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-815275-2
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