Tempio del Divo Claudio (resti)
Historic site · Celio, Italy
The remains of the temple to the deified Claudius, on the western slope of the Caelian, which the Sovrintendenza Capitolina records under Rione XIX - Celio. Nothing of the temple building itself survives, but the substructures of its platform stand substantially, notably on the east side along the modern via Claudia. On the west side a series of two-storey rooms with a travertine façade survives inside the property of the church and convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. The Museo della Forma Urbis stands on the same platform.
History
Claudius died in 54 AD and was deified. The Sovrintendenza Capitolina records that the temple is known only from a fragment of the Severan marble plan, the Forma Urbis: prostyle and hexastyle, fronting north, raised on a rectangular platform of 180 by 200 metres. Nero built a monumental nymphaeum against that flank as a backdrop to the Domus Aurea and destroyed the temple, which Vespasian rebuilt.
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