Great Altar of Hercules

Great Altar of Hercules

The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules ("Herculis Invicti Ara Maxima" [Tacitus and Juvenal both refer to the altar as "magna" (great") instead of "maxima" ("greatest")] ) stood in the Forum Boarium, of ancient Rome. It was the earliest cult-centre of Hercules in Rome, predating the circular Temple of Hercules that stood until it was demolished by order of Pope Sixtus V. Roman tradition made the spot the site where Hercules slew Cacus and ascribed to Evander its erection. In modern Rome, the site is in the north-east corner of Piazza di Bocca della Verità, north of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

The original altar burned in the Great Fire of Rome [Tacitus, Annals, xv.41] , but was rebuilt and was still standing in the fourth century.

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* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby, "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome" 1929]


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