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The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus (Latin: Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini; Italian: Tempio di Giove Ottimo Massimo; lit. ' Temple of Jupiter , the Best and Greatest ' ), was the most important temple in Ancient Rome , located on the Capitoline Hill .
Cultic activity had long taken place at the site; the temple presumably replaced an earlier one, possibly using the same foundation. [a] It was the biggest temple dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maxiums Heliopolitanus in all the Roman Empire. The columns were 19.9 meters high with a diameter of nearly 2.5 meters: the biggest in the classical world.
Temple of Jupiter Stator (2nd century BC), in the Campus Martius; Temple of Jupiter Victor, ruins on the Palatine Hill which until 1956 were thought to be a temple to Jupiter, but are now identified as the Temple of Apollo Palatinus; Elsewhere: Temple of Jupiter (Baalbek), in Heliopolis Syriaca, modern Lebanon; the largest temple dedicated to ...
The Temple of Jupiter, Capitolium, or Temple of the Capitoline Triad, was a temple in Roman Pompeii, at the north end of its forum.Initially dedicated to Jupiter alone, it was built in the mid-2nd century BC at the same time as the Temple of Apollo was being renovated – this was the area at which Roman influence over Pompeii increased.
The Temple of Jupiter (Croatian: Jupiterov hram) is a temple in Split, Croatia dedicated to the Ancient Roman god Jupiter. It is located in the western part of Diocletian's Palace near the Peristyle , the central square of the imperial complex.
The Temple of Jupiter Anxur (Italian: Tempio di Giove Anxur) is an Ancient Roman temple that is located in Terracina, Italy. [ 1 ] The temple was built between the mid-second and mid-first century BC and is dedicated to Jupiter , who was the protector of Anxur. [ 2 ]
The temple was dedicated to Jupiter Poeninus or Apenninus, [2] resulting from the syncretization of the Celtic deity Poenina/Poeninus with Jupiter. [3] [2] The deity was linked to the Ligurian god Poeninus mentioned by Livy [4] in relation to a cult on the mountain, in turn linked to the Celtic term pen, meaning "mountain, hill", or more generally "height". [2]
The Temple of Jupiter Feretrius on a denarius of Lentulus Marcellinus, 1st century BC - Marcus Claudius Marcellus, his head veiled by his toga, carries the spoliae opimae into the temple. [1] The Temple of Jupiter Feretrius (Latin: Aedes Iovis Feretrii) was, according to legend, the first temple ever built in Rome (the second being the Temple ...