Mons Aventinus

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §3 Aventine

  A hill of Rome; Remus's auspice-station and burial place of Romulus Silvius.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §31 Aventine

  One of Rome's hills, south of the Palatine; the Icilian law assigned it to the commons for housing.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §22 the Aventine

  The hill at Rome, outside the pomerium, where the evoked Juno of Veii was given her temple.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §40 the Aventine

  The hill the plebs occupied in a later secession; another precedent for orderly protest, unlike this armed march.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §34 Aventine

  A hill of plebeian secession invoked in the speech against the Claudii.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 Aventine

  One of Rome's hills, site of the temple of Juno Regina.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §16 built on the Aventine

  One of Rome's hills, site of the temple of Liberty built by Gracchus' father.

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §14 the Aventine

  The hill where the Numidian deserters were posted; a false cry of its capture causes panic.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §37 the Aventine

  The Aventine hill of Rome, site of the temple of Juno Regina.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §4 Aventine

  Hill associated with plebeian secession, named beside the Sacred Mount.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §8 the Aventine

  One of Rome's seven hills, traditionally plebeian.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §23 Aventine

  One of the seven hills of Rome; a shower of stones there required a nine-day expiatory sacrifice.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §12 Aventine

  One of Rome's seven hills, a plebeian quarter where Aebutia and Hispala lived.

• The History of Rome, Book 40 §2 Aventine

  The hill on which stood the temple of Luna whose door the storm tore away.