Temple of Minerva Medica

For the well-preserved ruin from the 4th century, see Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum).
Temple Minerva Medica
Temple Minerva Medica is located in Rome
Temple Minerva Medica
Temple Minerva Medica
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Coordinates41°53′31″N 12°30′08″E / 41.8920°N 12.5022°E / 41.8920; 12.5022

The temple of Minerva Medica (akin to the temple of Apollo Medicus) was a temple in ancient Rome, built on the Esquiline Hill in the Republican era,[1] though no remains of it have been found. Since the 17th century, it has been wrongly identified with the ruins of a nymphaeum on a nearby site, on account of the erroneous impression that the Athena Giustiniani had been found in its ruins.[2]

  1. ^ Cicero, De divinatione II.123: sine medico medicinam dabit Minerva, and CIL VI.10133, 30980.
  2. ^ HJ 360; LS III.158‑161.