Bovillae

Bovillae

Bovillae was an ancient town in Lazio, central Italy, currently part of the Frattocchie "frazione" in the municipality of Marino.

It was a station on the Via Appia (which in 293 BC was already paved up to this point), located c. 18 km SE of Rome. It was a colony of Alba Longa, and appears as one of the thirty cities of the Latin league. After the destruction of Alba Longa in 658 BC the "sacra" were, it was held, transferred to Bovillae, including the cult of Vesta (in inscriptions "virgines Vestales Albanae" are mentioned, and the inhabitants of Bovillae are always spoken of as "Albani Longani Bovillenses") and that of the gens Iulia. The existence of this hereditary worship led to an increase in its importance when the Julian house rose to the highest power in the state. The horsemen met Augustus's dead body at Bovillae on its way to Rome, and in 16 AD the shrine of the family worship was dedicated anew [It is not likely that any remains of it now exist.] and yearly games in the circus instituted, probably under the charge of the "sodales Augustales", whose official calendar has been found here.

Bovillae appears as the scene of the quarrel between Milo and Clodius, in which the latter, whose villa lay above the town on the left of the Via Appia, was killed. The site is not naturally strong, and remains of early fortifications cannot be traced. It may be that Bovillae took the place of Alba Longa as a local centre after the destruction of the latter by Rome, whichwould explain the deliberate choice of a strategically weak position.

Remains the circus built here by Tiberius in 14 AD in honor of Augustus can still be seen on the south-west, and of an octagonal mausoleum, edge of the Via Appia. The were once also a theatre and a "schola actorum" ("actor's school"), identified by an inscription found in the neighbourhood, and, probably, a temples dedicated to Veiovis, a divinity associated to the gens Iulia.

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