subfeature of Forum (Romanum or Magnum)
Alternate names: Temple of the Deified Julius Caesar, Aedes Divi Iuli, delubrum, heroon
This building housed the cult of the divine Julius Caesar. It was built on the site where the crowd attending his funeral burnt his corpse after the rousing funeral oration of M. Antonius. The temple was vowed in 42 BC and completed in 29 BC. Today, only large fragments of the high podium survive. The superstructure has largely vanished and is best understood from illustrations on coins, which show that was hexastyle (and pycnostyle; cf. Vitruvius 3.3.2), prostyle
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