# Porticus Vipsania

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Ancient Roman map of the world

Porticus Vipsania Error {{native name list}}: an IETF language tag in |tag1= is required (help) Location of Porticus Vipsania in Italy Type portico Location Italy Region Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio

Not to be confused with the [Porticus Argonautarum](/source/Porticus_Argonautarum), also sometimes known as the Portico of Agrippa.

The **Porticus Vipsania** ([Latin](/source/Latin_language) for the "Vipsanian [Portico](/source/Portico)"), also known as the **Portico of Agrippa** (*Porticus Agrippae*), was a [portico](/source/Portico) near the [Via Flaminia](/source/Via_Flaminia) in the [Campus Agrippae](/source/Campus_Agrippae) of [ancient Rome](/source/Ancient_Rome), famed for its [map of the world](/source/Mappamundi) (actually an example of a Roman [itinerarium](/source/Itinerarium)).[3] It was designed by [Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa](/source/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa) and constructed by his sister [Vipsania Polla](/source/Vipsania_Polla) after Agrippa died.[4][5] The map was named either directly after Vipsania Polla or the [gens Vipsania](/source/Vipsania_gens), which Polla and her brother Agrippa belonged to.[6][7]

## History

Augustus had a world map engraved on marble, following the descriptions given in Agrippa's geographical work, the *[Commentarii](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commentarii_(Agrippa)&action=edit&redlink=1)*.[8] Agrippa began construction of the map before he died in 12 BC, after which his sister [Vipsania Polla](/source/Vipsania_Polla) oversaw the project.[9] It was not yet completed by 7 BC when Augustus opened the Campus Agrippae to the public. Polla had likely died before this[10] as Augustus was the one who finished the project at a later date.[11] It was the relatives of a person who were responsible for completing tasks begun by a person. Once his sister died, Augustus who was Agrippa's father-in-law likely felt responsible for it. It was considered inappropriate to interfere with another family's work so Augustus included a description of the portico that explained the process of its making.[6] Although the Porticus Vipsania has not survived, a description of it is given in *[Natural History](/source/Natural_History_(Pliny))* by [Pliny the Elder](/source/Pliny_the_Elder), and it is also known through the [Peutinger Map](/source/Peutinger_Map).

## Location

Plan of the central Campus Martius Baths of Nero Stadium of Domitian Pantheon Basilica of Neptune Baths of Agrippa Stagnum ? Odeon of Domitian Warehouses? Warehouses? Warehouses? Saepta Julia Diribitorium Porticus Divorum Aqua Virgo Arch of Claudius Porticus Vipsania Barracks of the Vigiles Temple of Isis and Serapis Temple of Minerva Chalcidica Altar of Mars Via Flaminia Via Flaminia Temple of Hadrian Temple of Matidia Theater of Pompey Temples of Largo Argentina Porticus Minucia Column of Marcus Aurelius T. of M.Aurelius and Faustina (?) Arch of M.Aurelius (?) Column of Antoninus Pius Ustrinum Antoninorum Ustrinum M. Aurelii Via Recta Portico of Pompey Arcus Novus Porticus Meleagri Porticus of the Argonauts Piazza della Rotonda Villa Publica

## See also

- *[Forma Urbis Romae](/source/Forma_Urbis_Romae)*

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*Martial's Epigrams Book Two*](https://books.google.com/books?id=WC38cQPn17QC). Translated by [Williams, Craig A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_A._Williams_(professor)&action=edit&redlink=1) Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 70. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780195348200](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780195348200). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [59713644](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/59713644). Retrieved 2020-05-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Duff, James Duff](/source/James_Duff_Duff), ed. (1932). [*D. Ivnii Ivvenalis Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires of Juvenal*](https://books.google.com/books?id=sINfAAAAMAAJ). University of Michigan: The University Press. p. 223. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [164922](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/164922). [*Satvrae XIV. Fourteen satires*](https://archive.org/details/atvraexivfourt00duffgoog) at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Ravenstein, Ernest George](/source/Ernest_George_Ravenstein) (1911), ["Map"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Map), in [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm) (ed.), *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*, vol. 17 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 637

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["www.quondam.com/e28/2897.htm"](https://www.quondam.com/e28/2897.htm). *www.quondam.com*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Rodriguez, Connie (1992). "The Porticus Vipsania and Contemporary Poetry". *Latomus*. **51** (1): 79–93. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [41536195](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41536195).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-BRILL_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-BRILL_6-1) Bianchetti, Serena; Cataudella, Michele; Gehrke, Hans-Joachim (2015). *Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition*. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. BRILL. p. 219. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789004284715](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789004284715).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Reinhold, Meyer](/source/Meyer_Reinhold) (1933). [*Marcus Agrippa*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pl5oAAAAMAAJ). Studia historica. Vol. 16. University of Michigan: Humphrey Press. p. 136.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Lacus Curtius Porticus Vipsania (Platner & Ashby, 1929)"](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Porticus_Vipsania.html). *penelope.uchicago.edu*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Swan, Peter Michael (2004). *The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)*. Oxford University Press. p. 76. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780195347142](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780195347142).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Bianchetti, Serena; Cataudella, Michele; Gehrke, Hans-Joachim (2015). *Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition*. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. BRILL. p. 221. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789004284715](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789004284715).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [*Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy*](https://books.google.com/books?id=JzMeAQAAMAAJ). Vol. 63. University of Chicago: Royal Irish Academy. 1963. p. 151.

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