Hercules Musarum in Circo Flaminio. Dalla dedica di Fulvio Nobiliore alla Porticus Philippi

Aim of this paper is to re-examine the aedes Herculis Musarum and porticus Philippi within the urban landscape of Rome, and in particular the area in circo Flaminio. In the first part of the paper the issues related to the aedes and to the porticus will be examined (the dies natales, the nature of the figure of Hercules Musarum, the kind of the interventions made by Nobilior and Philippus). On the evidence of a new analysis of archaeological data relating to the temple and to the porticus, the second part will offer a new interpretation of the architectural features of the monumental complex in the age of Augustus and dentification of a second, more recent, building phase.