Theatrum Pompei
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Rome's first permanent theater, located in the Campus Martius. The complex was completed under the second consulship of Pompeius Magnus in 55 B.C.
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Via di Grotta Pinta (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Teatro di Pompeo (Italian, modern)
- Theater of Pompey (English, modern)
- Theatrum Pompei (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Theatrum marmoreum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- theatrum Pompeianum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- theatrum magnum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Theatrum Pompei part of (analytical) Regio IX (Circus Flaminius) (unspecified date range)
- Theatrum Pompei located at Roma (unspecified date range)
- Porticus Pompei part of (physical/topographic) Theatrum Pompei (unspecified date range)
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- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Digital Augustan Rome 25: Theatrum Pompeium / Pompeianum
- Fasti Online: Teatro di Pompeo (palazzo Pio)
- Gagliardo, M. C. and James E. Packer. 2006. "A New Look at Pompey's Theater: History, Documentation, and Recent Excavation." American Journal of Archaeology 110.1:93-122.
- KCL The Pompey Project
- Packer, J.E., John Burge and Maria C. Gagliardo. 2005. " Looking Again at Pompey's Theater: The 2005 Excavation Season." American Journal of Archaeology 111.3:505-22.
- Platner and Ashby 1929 (Perseus), THEATRUM POMPEI
- Sear, F. B. 1993. " The Scaenae Frons of the Theater of Pompey." American Journal of Archaeology 97.4:687-701.
- Wikipedia (English) Theatre of Pompey
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Theatrum Pompei: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <http://3.22.44.247/places/541950317> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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