Santuario di Ercole Vincitore, Tivoli

The sanctuary of Hercules the Victor is one of the major complexes of Roman architecture in the Republican period. It falls into the typology of the so-called Hellenistic sanctuaries, dating from the 2nd-1st centuries BC and built in the wake of the great cultural influence exerted by Hellenistic culture after the final Roman conquest of Greece. Located in Tivoli, it is the largest of the Italic sanctuaries dedicated to Hercules and the second largest in the entire Mediterranean after that of Gades in Spain. It was built between the last decades of the second century BC and 82 BC. Further interventions took place, especially in the theater area, in the Augustan period. Suetonius relates that Augustus administered justice here on numerous occasions under the sanctuary's porticoes.