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Misenum was an important military, naval harbour. It was constructed at the far west end of the Bay of Naples. Misenum took over the military role of Portus Iulius to the east, where the harbour was affected by silting. The new harbour was equipped with moles. The water supply was ensured by an aqueduct and a huge cistern, later nicknamed the ...
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Misenum is one of the main settings in Robert Harris' novel Pompeii, whose protagonist, Attilius, works as the aquarius at the Piscina Mirabilis (the reservoir to which the Aqua Augusta aqueduct connected). In the novel Ben-Hur, Misenum is the location of a villa owned by Quintus Arrius later bequeathed to his adopted son Judah Ben-Hur. The Ben ...
Misenum and the Piscina. The Western Roman fleet was now based in Misenum. 22,000 oarsmen and troops plus families, dockyard and support workers, and patricians lived here. They needed a secure supply of fresh water. The Augusta was a small aqueduct by Roman standards providing 3,000 cubic metres a day.
Extract The northern headland of the bay of Naples (*Neapolis) (reputedly the tomb of *Aeneas' trumpeter Misenus, Verg. Aen. 6. 162 f.) and the adjoining harbour and town.
Mar 4, 2010 · Misenum was the largest base, Portus Julius, of the Roman navy, since it was the base of the Classis Misenensis, the most important Roman fleet. It was first established as a naval base in 27 BC by Marcus Agrippa, the right-hand man of the emperor Augustus. Misenum emerged, with Ravenna, as one of the major ports for the Roman Imperial Navy in ...
Aug 23, 2017 · October 24, 79 AD — In 79 AD Pliny the Younger was seventeen and staying with his famous uncle, Pliny the Elder, a naturalist, author and naval commander for the Roman fleet at Misenum in the Bay of Naples. His account written as a letter to the Roman historian Tacitus 25 years later made the eruption of Vesuvius famous long after Pompeii was buried under debris and forgotten.
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The main cistern filled by the aqueduct is the Piscina Mirabilis in Ba ́coli (Misenum).Such a major monument required constant maintenance; there were major repairs in the Flavian period (1st century AD) with the addition of parallel tunnels and the Emperor Constantine also engaged in a massive restoration documented on an inscription tablet[8] discovered in Serino and dated to AD 324.
