Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: “This Place Was Holiest of All”
- Chapter One “The Size of the Plain Is Remarkable”: Defining the Limits of the Campus Martius in Time and Space
- Chapter Two Gathering Troops in the War God's Field
- Chapter Three “Very Costly Temples”: The Campus Martius and Republican Temple Construction
- Chapter Four “Chariot Races,” “Three Theatres,” “An Amphitheatre,” and More: Entertainment in the Campus Martius
- Chapter Five “Colonnades about It in Very Great Numbers”: The Porticoes of the Campus Martius
- Chapter Six Between the Aqua Virgo and the Tiber: Water and the Field of Mars
- Chapter Seven “A Zeal for Buildings”: Reshaping of the Space by the Emperors
- Conclusion: “The Rest of the City a Mere Accessory”
- Appendix A Chronology of Development in the Campus Martius to the Early Fourth Century c.e.
- Appendix B Glossary of Architectural Terms
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
Chapter Three - “Very Costly Temples”: The Campus Martius and Republican Temple Construction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: “This Place Was Holiest of All”
- Chapter One “The Size of the Plain Is Remarkable”: Defining the Limits of the Campus Martius in Time and Space
- Chapter Two Gathering Troops in the War God's Field
- Chapter Three “Very Costly Temples”: The Campus Martius and Republican Temple Construction
- Chapter Four “Chariot Races,” “Three Theatres,” “An Amphitheatre,” and More: Entertainment in the Campus Martius
- Chapter Five “Colonnades about It in Very Great Numbers”: The Porticoes of the Campus Martius
- Chapter Six Between the Aqua Virgo and the Tiber: Water and the Field of Mars
- Chapter Seven “A Zeal for Buildings”: Reshaping of the Space by the Emperors
- Conclusion: “The Rest of the City a Mere Accessory”
- Appendix A Chronology of Development in the Campus Martius to the Early Fourth Century c.e.
- Appendix B Glossary of Architectural Terms
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
Summary
A Second-Century Rivalry
Despite having been elected consul a few days earlier on February 18, 188 b.c.e., Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was very displeased. The day after his selection along with co-consul Gaius Flaminius, six praetors were chosen, and now the Senate would decide to which region of the expanding empire each would be sent. War was brewing with the Ligurians in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, and the Senate decreed that the two consuls should proceed in that direction to keep the peace. Lepidus objected, arguing to the Senate that “it was improper that both consuls should be shut up in the valleys of the Ligurians while Marcus Fulvius [Nobilior] and Gnaeus Manlius for two years now [as consuls], the one in Europe, the other in Asia, were lording it as if they were the successors to Philip [of Macedon] and Antiochus [the Great].” Lepidus had a particular grudge against Fulvius, who had managed to thwart his efforts to become consul two years earlier. The sole activities of the former consuls, Lepidus claimed, were threatening tribes against whom no war had been declared and enriching themselves by “selling peace for a price.” Either send the newly elected consuls to Europe and Asia to replace Fulvius and Manlius, he pleaded to the Senate, or bring those soldiers home. Unfortunately for Lepidus, the Senate chose the latter course. With their term starting on the New Year on March 1, 187 b.c.e., Aemilius Lepidus and his co-consul Flaminius were ordered north to battle the Ligurians.
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- Campus MartiusThe Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome, pp. 43 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015