![]() ![]() There seem to have been at least two monuments at different times: an initial one which was removed the consuls within six weeks of Caesar's death and another which was rebuilt in the summer of 44 BC. The popular enthusiasm led to the creation of an unofficial monument on the east side of the Forum, opposite the Regia, which was the site of oaths and sacrifices. ![]() Ī cremation within the city's ceremonial heart was both unusual and politically charged: Caesar's impromptu pyre recalled the cremation of populist firebrand Publius Clodius Pulcher inside the Cura Hostilia in 52 BC. Īrrian added a mechanized wax effigy of Caesar displaying all of Caesar's wounds. Then the musicians and actors tore off their robes, which they had taken from the equipment of his triumphs and put on for the occasion, rent them to bits and threw them into the flames, and the veterans of the legions the arms with which they had adorned themselves for the funeral many of the women too, offered up the jewels which they wore and the amulets and robes of their children. The bier on the rostra was carried down into the Forum by magistrates and ex-magistrates and while some were urging that it be burned in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, and others in the Hall of Pompey, on a sudden two beings with swords by their sides and brandishing a pair of darts set fire to it with blazing torches, and at once the throng of bystanders heaped upon it dry branches, the judgment seats with the benches, and whatever else could serve as an offering. īut Suetonius suggests a "divine" intervention with hints of a more mundane popular demonstration: Then, seizing his body, some wished to convey it to the room in which he had been slaughtered, and others to the Capitol, and burn it there but being prevented by the soldiers, who feared that the theatre and temples would be burned to the ground at the same time, they placed it upon a pyre there in the Forum, without further ado. Cassius Dio says the crowd wanted to burn Caesar's body on the Capitolium: The sources disagree about the precise sequence of events. The Regia was also, traditionally, the residence of Rome's kings: the choice of location may also reflect popular support for Caesar's "royal" status as a Dictator perpetuo. Caesar's body was brought to the Forum by his political supporters and placed in front of the Regia, which had been the personal headquarters of Caesar as Pontifex Maximus. According to Suetonius, a conventional funeral was planned for the Campus Martius, but the actual cremation, in all accounts, took place in the Forum after a rousing speech by Mark Antony. Īncient accounts of Caesar's cremation after his death in 44 BC are somewhat confused. It stands on the east side of the main square of the Roman Forum, between the Regia, Temple of Castor and Pollux, and the Basilica Aemilia, on the site of Caesar's cremation. However it was completed by Octavian alone: he dedicated the prostyle temple (it is still unknown whether its order was Ionic, Corinthian or composite) to Caesar, his adoptive father, on 18 August 29 BC, as part of the triple triumph celebrating his victory over Antony and Cleopatra. The temple was decreed by the triumvirs Octavian, Antony and Lepidus in 42 BC after the senate deified Julius Caesar posthumously. The Temple of Divus Iulius and Rostra Diocletiani are both in red. Temple of Julius Caesar Plan of the Roman Forum. Remains of the temple, seen from the back. The Temple of Caesar or Temple of Divus Iulius ( Latin: Aedes Divi Iuli Italian: Tempio del Divo Giulio), also known as Temple of the Deified Julius Caesar, delubrum, heroon or Temple of the Comet Star, is an ancient structure in the Roman Forum of Rome, Italy, located near the Regia and the Temple of Vesta. Temple with, probably, a podium rostra in the frontal part ![]()
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