According to legend, Ancus Marcius built this city as a fortress due to its proximity to salt marshes.
This city's cosmopolitan culture is attested by the discovery of the oldest synagogue ever found outside of Israel. Important structures found in this city included the well-preserved Warehouses of Epagathus and Epaphroditus and the Square of the Corporations. According to legend, Ancus Marcius built this city as a fortress due to its proximity to salt marshes. A Cilician raid on this city in 68 BC terrified the Roman people into passing the Lex Gabinia over the Senate's wishes. Trajan added a walled-in, hexagonal basin to an expansion project to this city started by (*) Claudius in 42 AD in response to famine. The Latin word for "mouth" provided the name for this city, where ships brought in half a million tons of wheat annually to be transferred onto ox-borne barges up the Tiber. For 10 points, name this port that handled the trade of ancient Rome.
This city's cosmopolitan culture is attested by the discovery of the oldest synagogue ever found outside of Israel.
Ostia Antica