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During the 2nd century BC, this broad space was encroached upon by buildings and monuments. The circus had no permanent seating, nor were there any permanent structures to mark the perimeter of the race track. By the early 3rd century AD, the only open space that remained was a small piazza in the
215:, and a fragment of the Marble Plan labelled "CIR FLAM" which fitted south of the Portico of Octavia, confirmed the Circus to be roughly located between the Tiber to the south and the Porticos of Octavia and Phillipus to the north, and hemmed in by the Theatre of Marcellus to the east.
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and its connecting portico (the "Crypta Balbi" as the archaeological site is known). New excavations combined with the new configuration of the Marble Plan altered the understanding of where the Circus
Flaminius was located, moving it southwest closer to the Tiber and placing it on a
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was visiting the temple. Augustus undertook myriad new constructions around the Circus, and probably had it paved for the first time. Most notably
Augustus demolished the small theater dedicated to Apollo, as well as the temples of Diana and Pietas, to build the
255:, and seem to have been symbolically grounded in the site itself, as they were never moved to a different circus. Equestrian events were also associated with underworld deities in other rituals and festivals in the Campus Martius.
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130:, in the Flaminian Fields. A theatre dedicated to Apollo was also set up in 179 BC, close to the temple of Apollo, and later rebuilt under the dictatorship of
189:("Street of Dark Shops"), so-called because in the Middle Ages the arcades had sheltered the workshops of artisans. This placed the Circus north of the
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states that the actual Circus was built around the Fields, which were already a hallowed site for games by the time the Circus was laid in 220 BC. The
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between the Piazza
Paganica and Piazza Margana. In the 1960s, this long-held identification was challenged by the joining of new fragments to the
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The buildings remained in use until the end of the fourth century, when the area was finally abandoned. In the Middle Ages the ruins of the
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to the southeast. The Temple of Mars was situated in the northwest. It is estimated that by 220 BC there were six temples, including one to
269:("Plebeian Games") were held there. In 2 BC, the circus was flooded for the slaughter of 36 crocodiles to commemorate the building of the
47:. It contained a small race-track used for obscure games, and various other buildings and monuments. It was "built", or sectioned off, by
350:) were often incorrectly identified as the Circus Flaminius. In the 16th century the "Castrum Aureum" ("golden camp") mentioned in a
169:. In the early Principate two monumental arches were added at the north and south ends of the Circus, the northern one dedicated to
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In its early existence, the Circus was a loop, approximately 500 meters in length stretching across the
Flaminian Fields (
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The plaza of the Circus
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There were many structures in the vicinity of the circus (“in circo
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were rounded up in the Circus and slaughtered while the Senate met in the adjacent
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in the year of his death (19 CE), and the southern one to the stepson of
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Pier Luigi Tucci, 'Nuove ricerche sulla topografia dell’area del circo
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were hosted in the Fields since they were inaugurated by Rome's last king
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In AD 15, statues to the deified Augustus were erected, dedicated by
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in the area encompassing much of the former Circus Flaminius. The
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stands roughly where the southern end of the arena was located.
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were often held within it. In 9 BC, it was the venue where
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on the eastern side of the Circus. Augustus also built the
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