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Topic: Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
Location: Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece

Pompey's new theater, completed in this year, …

Years: 52BCE - 52BCE

Pompey's new theater, completed in this year, is a gigantic, architecturally daring, self-contained complex on the Campus Martius, complete with shops, multi-service buildings, gardens and a temple to Venus Victrix.

The latter connects its donor to Aeneas, a son of Venus and ancestor of Rome itself.

In its portico, the statuary, paintings and personal wealth of foreign kings can be admired at leisure.

Pompey's triumph lives on.

His theater makes an ideal meeting place for his supporters.