Dieux et hommes à Ostie. Port de Rome. Architecture – paysage usually carrying a cup

usually carrying a cup

it takes all forms and becomes a universal language

Kim Simonsson

en passant par les jouets mobiles

- Chapter 98

Dieux et hommes à Ostie. Port de Rome. Architecture – paysage usually carrying a cupThe port of Rome, Ostia, located south of the mouth of the Tiber, constitutes an exceptional terrain for studying the religious life of an ancient city. Since the founding of the Roman colony at the end of the 4th century BC, gods and men coexisted in the city. Their common destiny would last until the last attestations of polytheistic cults at the end of the 5th century. A military port under the Republic, having a fundamental role in supplying the