Bovillae was an ancient town in Lazio, central Italy, currently part of the Frattocchie frazione in the municipality of Marino. For the football club see SS Lazio Lazio ( Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a Comune; for other Administrative Marino ( Marinum or Castrimoenium in Latin, Marini in local dialect is an Italian City and Comune in

It was a station on the Via Appia (which in 293 BC was already paved up to this point), located c. The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia) was the most important ancient Roman road. 18 km SE of Rome. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 It was a colony of Alba Longa, and appears as one of the thirty cities of the Latin league. Alba Longa (in Italian sources occasionally written Albalonga) was an ancient city of Latium in central Italy southeast of Rome in the Alban The Latin League (c 7th century BC - 338 BC) was a confederation of about 30 villages and tribes in the region of Latium near Ancient Rome organized for After the destruction of Alba Longa in 658 BC the sacra were, it was held, transferred to Bovillae, including the cult of Vesta (in inscriptions virgines Vestales Albanae are mentioned, and the inhabitants of Bovillae are always spoken of as Albani Longani Bovillenses) and that of the gens Iulia. Events and trends Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras Guatemala. Indra ( Sanskrit: इन्द्र or इंद्र Indra, Malay: Indera, Thai: พระอินทร์ Phra-Intra Vesta was the Virgin goddess of the Hearth, home and family in Roman mythology. The existence of this hereditary worship led to an increase in its importance when the Julian house rose to the highest power in the state. Julius (fem Julia) is the Nomen of the gens Julia, an important Patrician family of Ancient Rome supposed to have descended from The horsemen met Augustus's dead body at Bovillae on its way to Rome, and in 16 AD the shrine of the family worship was dedicated anew^[1] and yearly games in the circus instituted, probably under the charge of the sodales Augustales, whose official calendar has been found here. Augustus ( Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was Sodales Augustales (or Sacerdotes Augustales, or simply Augustales, Classical Latin: Avgvstales was an order of Roman priests instituted by

Bovillae appears as the scene of the quarrel between Milo and Clodius, in which the latter, whose villa lay above the town on the left of the Via Appia, was killed. Titus Annius Milo Papianus was a Roman political agitator the son of Gaius Papius Celsus, but adopted by his maternal grandfather Titus Annius Luscus. Clodius is the Roman Nomen Claudius altered to a spelling that would have sounded Plebeian to Roman ears The site is not naturally strong, and remains of early fortifications cannot be traced. It may be that Bovillae took the place of Alba Longa as a local centre after the destruction of the latter by Rome, which would explain the deliberate choice of a strategically weak position. Alba Longa (in Italian sources occasionally written Albalonga) was an ancient city of Latium in central Italy southeast of Rome in the Alban

Remains the circus built here by Tiberius in 14 AD in honor of Augustus can still be seen on the south-west, and of an octagonal mausoleum, edge of the Via Appia. Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (or Tiberius I) born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16 42 BC – March 16 AD 37) was the second Roman The were once also a theatre and a schola actorum ("actor's school"), identified by an inscription found in the neighbourhood, and, probably, a temples dedicated to Veiovis, a divinity associated to the gens Iulia. In Etruscan and Roman mythology Veiovis, Veive or Vediovis, was an old Italian or Etruscan Deity.

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