Ricerc@Sapienza

Three are the hypotheses about the dedication of the temple of Bona dea Subsaxana: 1) The sanctuary would have been dedicated in 123 BC by a Vestal (Claudia: Ov. Fast. 5.149-158; Licinia: Cic. Dom. 136) and there were three places of worship. 2) Licinia would have founded a temple near the official one, dedicated instead by Claudia. 3) Licinia would have dedicated an altar, an aedicula and a pulvinar in the sanctuary consecrated by Claudia. In the present article the author suggests a different reconstruction, where the history of the sanctuary is intertwined with the tumultuous events that characterized the years of the tribunates of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.