[image ALT: Much of my site will be useless to you if you've got the images turned off!]

p551 Venus Calva

An article on p551 of

Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby):
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Venus Calva: a temple which the Roman senate is said to have ordered built at some unknown date in honour of those Roman matrons who had given their hair for bowstrings (Hist. Aug. Maxim. 33; cf. Serv. Aen. I.720; Lact. Inst. I.20.27; Pr. Myth. I.447; RE III.1408).a Nothing further is known of this temple and its existence is very doubtful (SHA 1916, 7.A, 13).

Thayer's Note:

a references: also Augustine, Letters, 17.2.

Images with borders lead to more information.
The thicker the border, the more information. (Details here.)

The Dictionary's table of bibliographical abbreviations is here;
it includes links to those complete works that are online.

UP TO:

[image ALT: Link to Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome]

Platner
& Ashby

Topographia
Urbis

Rome

LacusCurtius

Home

SEE
ALSO:

Roman
Temples

A page or image on this site is in the public domain ONLY if its URL has a total of one *asterisk. If the URL has two **asterisks, the item is copyright someone else, and used by permission or fair use. If the URL has none the item is © Bill Thayer.

p551 Venus Calva

An article on p551 of

Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby): A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Thayer's Note:

Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby):
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
London: Oxford University Press, 1929.