Please tell me where Pompey's Theater was actually located. The story I heard, from two separate sources, both natives of Rome, was that the location of the portico was assumed to be at a different location, but that when this was was excavated (not all that long ago) and studied, the archaeologists concluded that this was the actual location at which the event occurred.
Also: http://www.beatrome.com/?action=monuments&m_id=21 http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_geary_rome.htm Thanks, Dan On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, jtainter <jtain...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Dan wrote: > > These are said to be the very steps on which the assassination of > Julius Caesar took place on March 15, 44 BCE. Taken on Valentine's > Day last month. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10809854 > > ----- > Dan, sorry to have to spoil this for you. Next time you are in Rome, take it > up with whoever told you this story. > > Julius Caesar was assassinated in the portico of Pompey's Theater--which is > about a kilometer or more from this temple (I know both locations). Here's a > reconstruction of Pompey's Theater: > > http://www.indiana.edu/~class2/c102/net_id/images/L132.JPG > > Joe > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
