Porticus Vipsania

Ancient Roman map of the world
Porticus Vipsania is located in Italy
Porticus Vipsania
Shown within Italy
Alternative nameportico of Vipsania
porticus Pollae[1]
porticus Europae[2]LocationItalyRegionMetropolitan City of Rome Capital, LazioTypeportico

The Porticus Vipsania (Latin for the "Vipsanian Portico"), also known as the Portico of Agrippa (Porticus Agrippae), was a portico near the Via Flaminia in the Campus Agrippae of ancient Rome, famed for its map of the world. It was designed by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and constructed by his sister Vipsania Polla after Agrippa died.[3][4] The map was named either directly after Vipsania Polla or the gens Vipsania, which Polla and her brother Agrippa belonged to.[5][6]

History

Augustus had a world map engraved on marble, following the descriptions given in Agrippa's geographical work, the Commentarii.[7] Agrippa began construction of the map before his death in 12 BC, after which his sister Vipsania Polla oversaw the project.[8] It was not yet completed by 7 BC when Augustus opened the Campus Agrippae to the public. Polla had likely died before this[9] as Augustus was the one who finished the project at a later date.[10] It was the relatives of a person who were responsible for completing tasks begun by a person, once his sister died Augustus who was Agrippa's father-in-law likely felt responsible for it. It was considered inappropriate to interfere with another family's work so Augustus included a description of the portico that explained the process of its making.[5] Although the Porticus Vipsania has not survived, a description of it is given in Natural History by Pliny the Elder, and it is also known through the Peutinger Map.

Location

Plan of the central Campus Martius
Baths
of Nero
Stadium of
Domitian
Pantheon
Basilica
of Neptune
Baths
of Agrippa
Stagnum ?
Odeon of
Domitian
Warehouses?
Warehouses?
Warehouses?
Saepta

Julia
Diribitorium
Porticus
Divorum
Aqua
Virgo
Arch of
Claudius
Porticus
Vipsania
Barracks of
the Vigiles
Temple of
Isis and
Serapis
Temple of
Minerva
Chalcidica
Altar
of Mars
Via
Flaminia
Via
Flaminia
Temple of
Hadrian
Temple of
Matidia
Theater of
Pompey
Temples of
Largo Argentina
Porticus
Minucia
Column of
Marcus Aurelius
T. of M.Aurelius
and Faustina (?)
Arch of 
M.Aurelius (?)
Column
of Antoninus Pius
Ustrinum
Antoninorum
Ustrinum
M. Aurelii
Via Recta
Portico of
Pompey
Arcus
Novus
Porticus
Meleagri
Porticus of the
Argonauts
Piazza
della
Rotonda
Villa
Publica

See also

References

  1. ^ Martial's Epigrams Book Two. Translated by Williams, Craig A. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 70. ISBN 9780195348200. OCLC 59713644. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  2. ^ Duff, James Duff, ed. (1932). D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires of Juvenal. University of Michigan: The University Press. p. 223. OCLC 164922. Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires at the Internet Archive
  3. ^ "www.quondam.com/e28/2897.htm". www.quondam.com.
  4. ^ Rodriguez, Connie (1992). "The Porticus Vipsania and Contemporary Poetry". Latomus. 51 (1): 79–93. JSTOR 41536195.
  5. ^ a b Bianchetti, Serena; Cataudella, Michele; Gehrke, Hans-Joachim (2015). Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. BRILL. p. 219. ISBN 9789004284715.
  6. ^ Reinhold, Meyer (1933). Marcus Agrippa. Studia historica. Vol. 16. University of Michigan: Humphrey Press. p. 136.
  7. ^ "Lacus Curtius Porticus Vipsania (Platner & Ashby, 1929)". penelope.uchicago.edu.
  8. ^ Swan, Peter Michael (2004). The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14). Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9780195347142.
  9. ^ Bianchetti, Serena; Cataudella, Michele; Gehrke, Hans-Joachim (2015). Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. BRILL. p. 221. ISBN 9789004284715.
  10. ^ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. 63. University of Chicago: Royal Irish Academy. 1963. p. 151.

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