What is Cocceius Auctus?
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Lucius Cocceius Auctus was a
Roman architect employed by
Octavian's strategist (and successor)
Agrippa to excavate the subterranean passageways the
crypta neapolitana connecting modern-day
Naples and
Pozzuoli and the
Grotta di Cocceio connecting Lake
Avernus and
Cumae. Cocceius was responsible for the conversion of the
Capitolium in Pozzuoli into a Temple of
Augustus with the backing of the merchant Lucius Calpurnius.
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