Lacus Curtius
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
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Last modified
Nov 30, 2021 06:25 PM
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History
The Lacus Curtius is an area in medio foro connected with the earliest phases of Rome's occupation. By the late Republican period it had become a small basin set inside a paved area. Livy relates the famous episode of the Sabine Mettius Curtius in relation to his description of the site.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/459049147
41.8923973, 12.4850177
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Lacus Curtius (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Lacus Curtius (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Lacus Curtius part of (physical/topographic) Forum Romanum (750 BC - AD 640)
- Lacus Curtius connection Roma (unspecified date range)
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- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Arachne 2107809: Lacus Curtius Rom
- Davies 2017 298
- Nash: Lacus Curtius (Rome, Italy), as viewed from the northeast, assimilated into the Forum floor
- Platner and Ashby 1929 (Perseus), LACUS CURTIUS
- RE Curtius lacus
- Richardson 1992 229-30
- ToposText Lacus Curtius (Rome)
- Wikipedia (English) Lacus Curtius
- Related:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Lacus Curtius: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/459049147> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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