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Misenum (Italy) 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.
Misenum, known today as Miseno, part of the commune of Bacoli and Naples in Italy, was a Roman town that developed next to the Roman Naval Base created by Augustus (27 BCE- 14 CE). The Naval Base, known as Portus Julius, was established in 27 BCE by Agrippa as the harbour of the Classis Misenensis (the Fleet of Misenum). Portus Julius.
Miseno is one of the frazioni of the municipality of Bacoli in the Italian Province of Naples. Known in ancient Roman times as Misenum, it is the site of a great Roman port.
The Piscina Mirabilis is a 1st Century BCE water cistern at the end of the Augusta Aqueduct, the longest ancient Roman aqueduct in Europe, which provided water to the port of Misenum, the headquarters of the Western Roman Fleet.
Before it became thus memorable as the station of the Roman fleet, Misenum was remarkable in history for the interview between Octavian and Antony and Sextus Pompeius, in which the two former were received by Sextus on board his ship, and a treaty was concluded for the division of the Roman Empire between the three contracting parties.
The recent PhD project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has had the task of lling in the gap in local modern archaeology, and shifting the level of analysis from the “site” to the “territory”: the study of individual monuments and surviving archaeological assemblages of the Roman town of Misenum, the main harbour for the Imperial ...
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.
