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Capitoline and Hill
Start on the Via D. Teatro Di Marcello at the foot of the Capitoline Hill.
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
In the confusion, the leading men of the state gathered at Sabinus ' house, proclaiming Vespasian as Emperor, but the multitude dispersed when Vitellian cohorts clashed with the armed escort of Sabinus, who was forced to retreat to the Capitoline Hill.
The most important building Domitian restored was the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, said to have been covered with a gilded roof.
In order to justify the divine nature of the Flavian rule, Domitian emphasized connections with the chief deity Jupiter, perhaps most significantly through the impressive restoration of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.
The state archives were kept in a structure on the slope between the Roman Forum and the Capitoline Hill.
As his last great act he began the construction of a temple in honour of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, partially funded by plunder seized from the Sabines.
Tarquin completed the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill which had been vowed and possibly begun by his father.
Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.
The Campidoglio, designed by Michelangelo during the same period, rationalized the structures and spaces of Rome's Capitoline Hill.
While looting the city, Sulla seized some of the incomplete columns and transported them back to Rome, where they were re-used in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.
With an imposing force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba, who, alarmed by rather vague rumors of treachery, was making his way through a dense crowd of wandering citizens towards the barracks of the guard.
The original " palaces " on the Palatine Hill were the seat of the imperial power while the " capitol " on the Capitoline Hill was the religious nucleus of Rome.
Gregory ordered a number of litanies to be said to stem the floods, which spread over the Campus Martius and the so-called Plains of Nero, reaching the foot of the Capitoline Hill.
On his death, the bust of Urban that lay beside the Palace of the Conservators on the Capitoline Hill was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of Urban belonging to the Jesuits from a similar fate.
Sergius founded the diaconie of S. Maria in Via Lata on the Corso from the Porta Flaminia to Capitoline Hill, encompassing a quarter of the city which developed in the eighth century.
He also built Rome's first prison on the Capitoline Hill.
Priscus followed up the Circus Maximus with the construction of the temple-fortress to the god Jupiter upon the Capitoline Hill.
* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
The word " Capitol " comes from Latin and is associated with the Roman temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitoline Hill.
* September 13, 509 BC — The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
At Jupiter's temple on the Capitoline Hill he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god.

Capitoline and Rome
There is a surviving portrait of Agrippina the Elder in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Statue of Pan, Capitoline Museum, Rome
Domitian, Capitoline Museums, Rome
The Judgement of Paris, Capodimonte porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome
1510, Capitoline Museums, Rome
The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome
* the Capitoline Museums, the oldest public collection of art in the world, began in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of important ancient sculptures to the people of Rome.
This was extended with the inclusion of the Capitoline Hill and Tiber Island when Rome became an oppidum, or fortified town.
The Capitoline Triad was introduced to Rome by the Tarquins.
The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).
When Hieron of Syracuse presented a golden statuette of the goddess to Rome, the Senate had it placed in the temple of Capitoline Jupiter among the greatest ( and most sacred ) deities.
The descriptions of Constantine's entry into Rome omit mention of him ending his procession at the temple of Capitoline Jupiter, where sacrifice was usually offered.
It was inspired by the Marcus Aurelius equestrian sculpture at the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
He was awarded first prize for a design that would have been situated at the base of Mount Fuji ; the hall he conceived was a fusion of Shinto shrine architecture and the plaza on Capitoline Hill in Rome.
On 22 October 1867, the revolutionaries inside Rome seized control of the Capitoline Hill and of Piazza Colonna.
The city expands its boundaries to accommodate them ; five of the seven hills of Rome are settled: the Capitoline Hill, the Aventine Hill, the Caelian Hill, the Quirinal Hill, and the Palatine Hill.
The Sabine king Titus Tatius marches on Rome to assault its Capitoline citadel.
Judgement of Paris, porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome
They capture the entire city of Rome except for the Capitoline Hill, which is successfully held against them.
A copy of the Capitoline wolf is preserved in the Capitoline Museum and was a gift that Rome gave to the city in 1974 during the events of the bimillennial anniversary of the aqueduct.
Funerary relief of an Archigallus from Lavinium, mid-2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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