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 ----- Dan, I believe what you photographed is Temple A in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo_di_Torre_Argentina It was built two centuries before Pompey's Theater. This is a good place to start for location: http://www.roman-empire.net/maps/map-rome.html And you can zoom in to this to see the relationship of the theater part of Pompey's Theater to Largo Argentina: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/rome-map (Look for a semi-circular street south of Piazza Navonna. That is the theater.) I may have given you a wrong distance from Largo Argentina to Pompey's Theater. I was thinking of the theater part, which was at the west end of the complex. The complex was huge, and I believe the portico did indeed extend to the neighborhood of Largo Argentine. But--sorry--not the temple you photographed. 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.
