Map of central Rome during the Roman Empire showing Vicus Tuscus at the center
Vicus Tuscus ("Etruscan Street" or "Tuscan Street") was an ancient street in the city of Rome, running southwest out of the Roman Forum between the Basilica Julia and the Temple of Castor and Pollux towards the Forum Boarium and Circus Maximus via the west side of the Palatine Hill and Velabrum.[1]
^Platner, Samuel B. "Vicus Tuscus." A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1929.
VicusTuscus ("Etruscan Street" or "Tuscan Street") was an ancient street in the city of Rome, running southwest out of the Roman Forum between the Basilica...
Temple of Castor and Pollux stood a shrine dedicated to Voltumna in the VicusTuscus. He was the equivalent of the Roman Vertumnus. Tinia Pallottino, "The...
earlier records. Later history relates that some Etruscans lived in the VicusTuscus, the "Etruscan quarter", and that there was an Etruscan line of kings...
street where Tullia disgraced the dead king afterwards became known as the Vicus Sceleratus, the Street of Crime. Tarquin commenced his reign by refusing...
– which Livy seems to suggest as a crossroads – is known thereafter as Vicus Sceleratus (street of shame, infamy or crime). His murder is parricide,...
Vortumnus (signum Vortumni) stood in a simple shrine located at the VicusTuscus near the Forum Romanum, and was decorated according to the changing seasons...
amass private collections. The temple was located in the Velabrum in the VicusTuscus of the Campus Martius, along a route associated with triumphs: the axle...
Monument Streets Milliarium Aureum Clivus Capitolinus Via Sacra Vicus Jugarius VicusTuscus Other Cloaca Maxima Comitium (Ficus Ruminalis Curia Curia Cornelia...
the Circus Flaminius, proceeded into the Forum, passed along to the VicusTuscus, Velabrum, through the Forum Boarium, and finally ended at the Temple...
allowed a district in the city to settle, which later became known as the VicusTuscus. In Roman tradition, the battle of Aricia happened around the fourth...
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