The auction was probably "piloted" because Sextus Pompeius, the son of Pompey the Great, could not make his offer to buy back the home of his ancestors. Pompey used it for political meetings with his supporters.Īt Domus Carinae the faction of optimates met when it began the conflict with Julius Caesar and Pompeius came out from there when he went to gather his army in Brindisi.Īfter the defeat of Pharsalo and the death of Pompeius, all his assets were auctioned none of optimates came forward to buy his houses, and among populares only Mark Antony made his offer and acquired all the properties that they were of Pompeius Magnus. Those rostra on the walls made it a symbol of the power of Rome and the great value of the one Roman commander who had won the title of the Great it was the home of a true Roman vir militares, without magnificence and luxuries, but rich in the more valuable existed according to the mos maiorum. The house as told by Cicero, who was a lieutenant of Pompeius, was not particularly large or particularly luxurious and Pompeius lived there until it was built the new house in Campus Martius near the theater that he donated to the city of Rome. The house was also known as Domus Carinae (House of the keels) and from this, probably the name extended to the whole surrounding area. For the victories reported in these military campaigns to Pompeius the triumph was decreed because he had secured the imperium maris to Rome. On the Fagutal slope right in front of the Velia hill, the gens Pompeia had built his domus and in the atrium, near the images of the ancestors, Pompeius Magnus had the rostra of ships that he had captured when he commanded the whole Roman fleet both in the campaign against the pirates of Cilicia, which eradicated in three months, both in the subsequent war against Mithridates VI king of Pontus.
Domus Carinae, rostrums home of Pompeius Magnus
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