Castor, Aedes

Historiae Romanae

Cassius Dio

He cut in two the temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum and made through it an approach to the palace running directly between the two statues, in order, as he was wont to say, that he might have the Dioscuri for gate-keepers.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Cassius Dio: Roman History (Volume VII. Books 56-60), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 175, translated by Earnest Carey, Herbert B. Foster, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1924, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Texts

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.42.5
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.20.12
T. Livius (Livy)

Antiquitates Romanae, l6.13.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Castor Aedes
Richardson, L. jr

Chronica, 146
Chronographus anni 354

De Natura Deorum, 3.13
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

De Re Publica, 46
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

De Vita Caesarum, 22.2
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

De Vita Caesarum, 10.1
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

De Vita Caesarum, 20
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

Epigrammata, 1.70.3
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

Fasti, 1.707-8
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Historiae Romanae, 55.27.4
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 37.8.2
Cassius Dio

In Verrem (actio secunda), 2.1.154
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

In Verrem (actio secunda), 2.1.129-54
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Marcius Coriolanus, 3.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Naturalis Historia, 10.121
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Philippicae, 3.27
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Pompeius, 2.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Saturae, 14.260-62
D. Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal)

Sulla, 33.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Images

Detail of Column Capitals
Giuliani's solution to the approach
In Situ Core
Scott's solution to the approach
Surviving In Situ Columns