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The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek
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referred to both the re-enactment of naval battles and the basin (or more
broadly, the complex) in which this took place.
Early naumachia The first known naumachia was given by Julius Caesar in
Rome in 46 BC on occasion of his quadruple triumph. After having a basin
dug near the Tiber, capable of holding actual biremes, triremes and
quinqueremes, he made 2000 combatants and 4000 rowers, all prisoners of
war, fight. In 2 BC on the occasion of the inauguration of the temple of
Mars Ultor, Augustus gave a naumachia based on Caesar's model. As cited in
Res Gestæ (§ 23), he created a basin on the right bank of the Tiber where
3000 men, not counting rowers, fought in 30 vessels with rams and a number
of smaller boats.
Claudius gave a naumachia in 5
