[...] > > I may have given you a wrong distance from Largo Argentina to > Pompey's Theater. I was thinking of the theater part, which > was at the west end of the complex. The complex was huge, and > I believe the portico did indeed extend to the neighborhood > of Largo Argentine. But--sorry--not the temple you photographed. > > Joe >
I was always taught that Caesar was assassinated on the steps of the Senate, and I never gave it further thought. I didn't realise that the Senate did not always sit in the same place. Plutarch, whose source was an eye-witness, says that the assassination was in _a_ portico - there seems to have been more than one: "It was a portico, one of those joining the theatre, with a large recess, in which there stood a statue of Pompey, erected to him by the commonwealth, when he adorned that part of the city with the porticos and the theatre. To this place it was that the senate was summoned for the middle of March (the Ides of March is the Roman name for the day); as if some more than human power were leading the man thither, there to meet his punishment for the death of Pompey." <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plutarch-caesar.html> Hard to tell from the maps the distance between the theatre and the site that Dan photographed. The wiki article says that Pompey incorporated the older site into his complex, so I don't think it's out of the question that Dan's steps are those where the deed was done. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
