Christer Bruun

Aedes Castorum, ludi und praedium missale: Drei Bemerkungen zur Topographie von Ostia-Portus und zum ager Ostiensis*

A passage in the historian Ammianus Marcellinus has been used to refute the recent proposal that a temple of Castor and Pollux in Ostia was located in the river harbour, suggesting instead a location on the Isola Sacra between Ostia and Portus. This article shows that neither the language of Ammianus nor a passage in another late-antique literary work, the Cosmographia of Pseudo-Aethicus, contradict the location in the river harbour. The article concludes with a discussion of the site Ad Sextum Philippi between Rome and Portus and of the toponym praedium missale and ponders the absence of known sites for circus games and spectacles in the Ostia-Portus area.

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