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The Forum Boarium was the site of the first gladiatorial contest at Rome which took place in 264 BC as part of aristocratic funerary ritual—a munus or funeral gift for the dead. Marcus and Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva put on a gladiatorial combat in honor of their deceased father with three pairs of gladiators.
The Temple of Hercules Victor (Italian: Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) or Hercules Olivarius (Latin for "Hercules the Olive-Bearer") [1] is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, the former Forum Boarium, in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely surrounded by a colonnade.
The square lies in the ancient area of the Forum Boarium, the cattle market of ancient Rome, just in front of the Tiber Island. It takes its name from the Bocca della Verità (Italian: Mouth of Truth), placed under the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, [1] built over the Ara Maxima of Hercules.
The Mouth of Truth (Italian: Bocca della Verità [ˈbokka della veriˈta]) is an ancient Roman marble mask in Rome, Italy, which stands against the left wall of the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, at the Piazza della Bocca della Verità, the site of the ancient Forum Boarium (the ancient cattle market).
The Temple of Portunus (Italian: Tempio di Portuno) is an ancient Roman temple in Rome, Italy.It was built beside the Forum Boarium, the Roman cattle market associated with Hercules, which was adjacent to Rome's oldest river port (Portus Tiberinus) and the oldest stone bridge across the Tiber River, the Pons Aemilius.
The temple of the Forum Boarium in Rome is located by the Tiber River. The statue was first created for the cult of Ara Maxima, which was dedicated to Hercules by the Greek king Evander. Legend states that the statue was created to commemorate the story of Hercules killing the robber Cacus, who attempted to steal the cattle of Geryon.
A temple in the Forum Boarium sometimes identified as that of Fortuna Virilis is more likely to belong to Portunus, [4] though possibly it was built for Portunus and rededicated to Fortuna Virilis. [5] In the early Middle Ages it was converted to a church perhaps called Santa Maria de Secundicerio. [6]
The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules (Latin: Herculis Invicti Ara Maxima) [a] stood in the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River in ancient Rome.It was the earliest cult location of Hercules in Rome, possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century bc.