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The Aventine Hill is portrayed as a rough working-class area of ancient Rome in the popular Falco series of historical novels written by Lindsey Davis about Marcus Didius Falco, a ' private informer ' who occasionally works for the Emperor Vespasian and lives in the Aventine.
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Aventine and Hill
He waged war successfully against the Latins, and a number of them were settled on the Aventine Hill.
Its residents were removed to settle on the Aventine Hill in Rome as new citizens, following the Roman traditions from wars with the Sabines and Albans.
More Latins were brought to Rome as citizens and were settled at the foot of the Aventine near the Palatine Hill, by the temple of Murcia
Diana was worshipped at a festival on August 13, when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her temple on the Aventine Hill in the mid-6th century BC.
The name of Sixtus is often connected with a great building boom in Rome: Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill was dedicated during his pontificate and he built Santa Maria Maggiore, whose dedication to Mary the Mother of God reflected his acceptance of the Ecumenical council of Ephesus which closed in 431.
In this manner, he completed the conquest of the Latins and relocated them to the Aventine Hill, thus forming the plebeian class of Romans.
He also oversaw the construction of the temple to Diana on the Aventine Hill.
* The temple to Vertumnus is built on the Aventine Hill in Rome.
As a youth he was sent to study in Rome, where, according to some unconfirmed sources, his uncle was abbot of a monastery on the Aventine Hill.
His shade was consulted as a god of prophecy under the name of Fatuus, with oracles in the sacred grove of Tibur, around the well Albunea, and on the Aventine Hill in ancient Rome itself.
* Aventine Hill ( Aventino )
* Aventine Hill ( Latin, Aventinus ; Italian, Aventino )
The Roman Forum had become a battleground, and the confusion prevented Lucius from travelling to the Aventine Hill to ordain the abbot of San Saba on 20 January 1145.
The festivals occurred in the grove of Simila near the Aventine Hill on March 16 and March 17.
Romulus wanted to found a city on the Palatine Hill ; Remus preferred the Aventine Hill.
Romulus favoured the Palatine Hill ; Remus wanted the Aventine Hill.
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.
In ancient Rome, a grove ( lucus ) near Ostia, situated between the Aventine Hill and the mouth of the Tiber River, was dedicated to a goddess named Stimula.
In 496 BC, against a background of economic recession and famine in Rome, imminent war against the Latins and a threatened secession by Rome's plebs ( citizen commoners ), the dictator A. Postumius vowed a temple to Ceres, Liber and Libera on or near the Aventine Hill.
Aventine and is
Its location is remarkable as the Aventine is situated outside the pomerium, i. e. original territory of the city, in order to comply with the tradition that Diana was a goddess common to all Latins and not exclusively of the Romans.
Little is known of Pope Eugene's early life other than that he was a Roman from the Aventine and was known for his holiness, gentleness, and charity.
* From the Etruscan word ruma, whose root is * rum-" teat ", with possible reference either to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately named twins Romulus and Remus, or to the shape of the Palatine and Aventine Hills ;
* The Basilica of Saint Sabina at the Aventine ( Rome ), is finished by Priest Petrus of Illyria.
* A temple is built on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, in Rome, in honour of the god Mercury.
Numa is said to have founded Roman religion after dedicating an altar on the Aventine Hill to Jupiter Elicius and consulting the gods by means of augury.
It may be that only the cults of deities considered indigenous were first established within the sacred boundary of Rome ( pomerium ), with " new " gods on the Aventine Hill or in the Campus Martius, but it is uncertain whether the terms indigetes and novensiles correspond to this topography.
It is generally thought to have been located on the Palatine Hill, but, being a victory monument, it may have been located on the route of the triumphal procession, either on the Campus Martius or the Aventine Hill.
The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
The Aventine hill ( in Latin, Collis Aventinus ) is the southernmost of Rome's seven hills.
It is presumed that the Aventine was state-owned public land ; in c. 456 BC a Lex Icilia allowed or granted the plebs property rights there.
After this, the walls were rebuilt or extended to properly incorporate the Aventine ; this is more or less coincident with the increasing power and influence of the Aventine-based plebeian aediles and tribunes in Roman public affairs, and the rise of a plebeian nobility.
The same image is portrayed in much of the series Rome, in which the Aventine is the home of Lucius Vorenus.
The Aventine plant, which is being developed by a partnership with Consolidated Grain and Barge, another company at the port, will be the largest ethanol plant east of the Mississippi River.
The site of the Mimslyn is on the former location of " Aventine ," the home of Peter Bouck Borst, a mid-19th century lawyer.
*" Aventine " is now located on South Court Street ( this is a private residence ) in the Town of Luray, Virginia.
It lies on the so-called Piccolo Aventino, which is an area close to the ancient Aurelian Walls next to the Aventine and Caelian Hill.
The Basilica of Saint Sabina on the Aventine Hill in Rome, Italy (, ) is a titular minor basilica and mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans.
Aventine and area
* The Forum Vinarium, dedicated to the commerce of wine, in the area now of the " quartiere " Testaccio, between Aventine Hill and the Tiber.
The pomerium was not a walled area ( unlike the Chinese Forbidden City ), but rather a legally and religiously defined one marked by cippi: It encompassed neither the entire metropolitan area nor even all the proverbial Seven Hills ( the Palatine Hill was within the pomerium, but the Capitoline and Aventine Hills were not ).
The Forum Vinarium was the wine forum venalium of early Ancient Rome, it was located in the area now of the quartiere Testaccio, between Aventine Hill and the Tiber.
Aventine and ancient
Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.
According to Roman tradition, the Aventine was not included within Rome's original foundation, and lay outside the city's ancient sacred boundary ( pomerium ).
The ancient Roman goddess Libertas was honored during the second Punic War by a temple erected on the Aventine Hill in Rome by the father of Tiberius Gracchus.
They retired on the " Aventine Mount ", like ancient Roman plebeians.
According to ancient mythology the White Poplar was consecrated to Hercules because he destroyed Cacus in a cavern adjoining the Aventine Hill, which was covered with these trees ; and in the moment of his triumph he bound his brows with a branch of White Poplar as a token of his victory.
The earliest known bridge of ancient Rome, Italy, the Pons Sublicius, spanned the Tiber River near the Forum Boarium (" cattle forum ") downstream from the Tiber Island, near the foot of the Aventine Hill.
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