<p>Temple of Flora on the slope of the *Aventine ‘by the *Circus Maximus’ (<i>Fast. Allif</i>.: FLOR[AE] AD C(IRCVM) MAXIMVM<i>, </i>in Degrassi, <i>Inscr. Ital</i>. 13.2, 181). Featuring a distinctly plebeian cult (Ov., <i>Fast.</i> 5.352: <i>volt sua plebeio sacra patere choro</i>), the sanctuary was founded by the plebeian aediles L. and M. Publicii (Tac., <i>Ann</i>. 2.49: <i>aedem Florae</i>), probably concurrent with the institution of the <i>Floralia</i> in <i>c</i>. 240 B.C. (Vell. Pat. 1.14.8; Pliny, <i>NH</i> 18.286) and the construction of the *Clivus Publicius, the Aventine’s main access from the N. The temple is without identified remains and its placement on Coarelli’s plan is certainly too detailed. But since it stood ‘on the same site’ as the Temple of *Ceres (Tac., <i>loc. cit.</i>: <i>eodemque in loco</i>), its place in the immediate vicinity of Ceres’ <i>aedes</i> is assured (Ziolkowski 31; Papi 254); thus, Flora’s temple can be located on the slope of the Aventine’s N tip, just above the head of the *Circus Maximus. Our map groups its index number together with that of the adjacent temples of Ceres and *Luna. As with the Temple of Ceres (and the Temple of *Ianus at the *Forum Holitorium), Flora’s temple was rather dilapidated when Augustus began to restore or rebuild it, and its rededication did not take place before the early years of Tiberius’ reign (Tac., <i>loc. cit.</i>).</p>