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 Pozzuoli:history,archeology,art,architecture,environment.
Brought to light after the burning of the cathedral in 1964, which revealed beautiful corinthian columns, the so-called Temple of Augustus was the city's "Capitolium" during the republican age.
By will of Lucius Calpurnius a rich Puteolan merchant, it was rebuilt by the architect Lucius Cocceius Auctus during the age of Augustus :it was converted into a Christian church between the 5th and the 6th, century A.D. and then into a cathedral.
It was remodeled in the Baroque style during the episcopate of Martino de Leòn y Cardenas (1631-1650).
www.icampiflegrei.it /visita_pozzuoli_ing.htm   (979 words)

  
 Grotta di Cocceio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Grotta di Cocceio, also known as the Cocceius Tunnel, is a straight-line subterranean gallery nearly a kilometer in length connecting Lake Avernus with Cumae north of Naples, Italy.
The tunnel was effected by the architect Lucius Cocceius Auctus at the wishes of Agrippa who was in the process of converting the Lake into a military port, the Portus Julius.
The Avernus side of the passage was decorated with a colonnade and had many statues in niches hewn into the tufa stone walls of the entance.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Grotta-di-Cocceio.htm   (247 words)

  
 Archaeology News
To date, they've unearthed a street network that dates back to the establishment of the colony in 194 BCE as well as buildings dating to different periods, most related to Augustus and Nero, Puteolli's golden age.
One of the more spectacular finds is the temple of Augustus built by the architect Lucius Cocceius Auctus presumably on the site of the ancient Capitolium.
Excavation on the temple began in 1964 when a fire destroyed the baroque church that the Spanish had built over the temple.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/225212   (3039 words)

  
 Aryan History & Science News (Vikings, Saxons, Kennewick Man and more!) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Music and dances, dice gambling and even love encounters were arranged by the inn's owner," Gialanella said.
The most imposing and spectacular find is the temple of Augustus, a white marble temple built by the architect Lucius Cocceius Auctus on the site of the ancient Roman colony's Capitolium.
Archaeologists have fully brought to light the temple's beautiful Corinthian columns and walls, on which excavation began in 1964.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=90613&page=3&pp=10   (13425 words)

  
 Liber VI
Novembris, utriusque necis die, per omnis annos donum Iovi sacraretur.
[6.26] Haud multo post Cocceius Nerva, continuus principi, omnis divini humanique iuris sciens, integro statu, corpore inlaeso, moriendi consilium cepit.
[6.34] Interim Oroden sociorum inopem auctus auxilio Pharasmanes vocare ad pugnam et detrectantem incessere, adequitare castris, infensare pabula; ac saepe modum obsidii stationibus cingebat, donec Parthi contumeliarum insolentes circumsisterent regem poscerent proelium.
www.biblio-net.com /lett_cla/testi/annales_liber_vi.htm   (6957 words)

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