The City Gate and Cityscape: Fanum Fortunae, the Arch of …
WEBThis gift of a city gate, redefined and reorganized the topography of Fanum Fortunae and altered its cityscape to suit Augustus’s political interests. In 9 CE, the colonia Fanum Fortunae (modern day Fano, Italy) received a triple-arched gateway with an inscription denoting it as a gift from Augustus Caesar.
Roman Emperors - DIR Aurelian - Loyola University Chicago
WEBJul 20, 2001 · Pisaurum and Fanum Fortunae . His coins of this early phase clearly show that he promoted the army: they bear legends like concordia exercitum / militum / legionum, fides militum, virtus militum / equitum , thereby celebrating the unity, loyalty and bravery of …
Fano - Wikipedia
WEBAn ancient town of Marche, it was known as Fanum Fortunae [3] after a temple of Fortuna located there. Its first mention in history dates from 49 BC, when Julius Caesar held it, along with Pisaurum and Ancona.
The historic center of Fano
WEBThe historic center of Fano still traces the ancient Roman urban layout of Fanum Fortunae, with the main streets of the cardo and decumanus and orthogonal axes that gradually developed all around it. The dense network of small streets is one of the most striking features of the settlement.
Legio VIII Augusta - Wikipedia
WEBHe was a soldier and musician of the legion and an Italian from Fanum Fortunae. In or before 9 AD the legion was transferred to Poetovium (modern Ptuj). The legion must have won a victory around this time that earned them the cognomen Augusta.
Is this Vitruvius’ basilica? - The History Blog
WEBMar 12, 2023 · In all ten books of the treatise, Vitruvius records only one building that he designed and executed personally: the Basilica of Fano, completed in 19 B.C. in what was then the Roman city of Fanum Fortunae (named after a now-lost temple of Fortune).
Fanum Fortunae | Oxford Classical Dictionary
WEBFanum Fortunae (mod. Fano), near the mouth of the *Metaurus in Umbria: important highway junction, where the *via Flaminia reached the Adriatic. Named after a temple of Fortune, it also contained *Vitruvius' celebrated *basilica (Vitr. 5.
Visions of Ancient Cities... - Society for Classical Studies
WEBIn 9 CE, the colonia Fanum Fortunae (modern day Fano, Italy) received a triple-arched gateway with an inscription denoting it as a gift from Augustus Caesar. Built of gleaming white Istrian stone, the entryway marked where the Via Flaminia, a prominent road connecting Rome with Northern Italy, intersected with the main east-west road of Fano.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites - Perseus Digital Library
WEBFANUM FORTUNAE (Fano) Italy. An Umbrian town on the Adriatic just N of the mouth of the Metaurus at the point where the Via Flaminia reaches the Adriatic after crossing the Apennines. Nothing is known of its early history or the reason for its name; it is first mentioned as occupied by Caesar after the crossing of the Rubicon ( BCiv. 1.11.4).
Fanum Fortunae - Encyclopedia
WEBfanum fortunae (mod. Fano ), an ancient town of Umbria, Italy, at the point where the Via Flaminia reaches the N.E. coast of Italy. Its name shows that it was of Roman origin, but of its foundation we know nothing.