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Dionysius Of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.79.11


nanBut their life was that of herdsmen, and they lived by their own labour, generally upon the mountains in huts which they built, roofs and all, out of sticks and reeds. One of these, called the hut of Romulus, remained even to my day on the flank of the Palatine hill which faces towards the Circus, and it is preserved holy by those who have charge of these matters; they add nothing to it to render it more stately, but if any part of it is injured, either by storms or by the lapse of time, they repair the damage and restore the hut as nearly as possible to its former condition. <


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.4.122 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Horace, Letters, 2.1.34 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Ovid, Fasti, 3.183-3.184 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

3.183. If you ask where my son’s palace was 3.184. See there, that house made of straw and reeds.
4. Suetonius, Augustus, 7.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 56.34.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

56.34.2.  This image was borne from the palace by the officials elected for the following year, and another of gold from the senate-house, and still another upon a triumphal chariot. Behind these came the images of his ancestors and of his deceased relatives (except that of Caesar, because he had been numbered among the demigods) and those of other Romans who had been prominent in any way, beginning with Romulus himself.
6. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.850

6.850. of laurel groves; and hence to earth outpours


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
architecture and art,roman appreciation Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
art and architecture,roman appreciation Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
augustan religious innovations Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
brutus,marcus Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
casa romuli Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
deification,ascent to heavens Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
divine honours Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
domitian,martial flatters Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
domitian,public architecture Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
ennius Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
festivals Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
founder,of rome Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
funeral Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
julius caesar,new romulus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
minerva,temple at syracuse Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
numa Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
octavius,portico of Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
palatine Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
palimpsestic rome,attitude to authentic antiquity Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
palimpsestic rome Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
portico of octavius Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
religious innovations Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116
romulus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
sacred architecture' Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
syracuse Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
temple of minerva at syracuse Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 262
tyranny,tyrant Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 116