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MDS1 TRW The Roman World
Augustan Culture:
Rebuilding Rome
Gillian Shepherd He [Augustus] so improved the city, which
had previously lacked the trappings which
befitted the dignity of its empire and had
been subject to fires and floods, that his
boast to have “left in marble that which he
found made of brick” was quite justified
Suetonius, The Divine Augustus 28.3
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
•  C. 64 BC – AD 12
•  Aedile in 33 BC (ex-consul)
•  Reorganisation of water supply including:
–  Sewers
–  Aqua Iulia (33 BC)
–  Aqua Virgo (19 BC)
•  Thermae of Agrippa
•  Horrea Agrippiana
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Pantheon, Rome (2nd cent. AD, Hadrian)
I built the Curia [= Curia Iulia, 29 BC]… the Temple of Apollo
on the Palatine [36-28 BC]… the Temple of the Divine Julius
[29 BC]… the temples on the Capitoline….
I rebuilt the Capitolium and the theatre of Pompey, each work
requiring great expense, without any inscription of my name. I
rebuilt the channels of the aqueducts which were falling apart
in many places through age… I completed the Forum Iulium
and the Basilica [Iulia], the works having been begun and
almost finished by my father… I rebuilt 82 temples of the gods
in the city during my sixth consulship [28 BC]…
On [my] private land I built the Temple of Mars Ultor and the
Forum of Augustus from the spoils of war….
Monumentum Ancyranum IV 19-21 (Res Gestae)
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Caryatids, Erechtheion, Athens (5th
cent. BC)
Forum of Augustus
(Forum Augustum)
Cf Suetonius Aug. 56.2;
Ovid Fasti 5.551 ff.; Martial 8.44;
Pliny N.H. 35.10.27, 35.36.93
Image Source Page: http://shot.holycross.edu/courses/displayimg.cgi?photoid=2009.04.0344
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Forum of Augustus
(Mars Ultor)
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Image Source Page: http://shot.holycross.edu/courses/displayimg.cgi?photoid=1999.03.0454
Forum of Augustus. Reconstruction
Image Source Page: http://keep2.sjfc.edu/class/bnapoli/msti431/jpk7984/msti431/
Image Source Page: http://citycatalogue.com/Italy/Rome/Natural-and-archeological-monuments/6588866
Mausoleum of Augustus
Nb pomerium
Image Source Page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/rome2005/updates/week7_8/nov7.html
Image Source Page: http://necropolis-cerveteri.seebyseeing.net/
Etruscan tombs, Cerveteri
Image Source Page: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/58000/58094/58094_mauso_halica.htm
Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. Proposed Reconstruction
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
The Ara Pacis (dedicated 30th Jan. 9 BC)
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Ara Pacis (interior)
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Ara Pacis
Vegetable ornament
(exterior)
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Ara Pacis. Aeneas sacrificing
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
Ara Pacis. Terra Mater Relief
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
South Frieze: Marcus Agrippa and imperial family
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Parthenon Frieze 5th century BC
Photo © Gillian Shepherd
South Frieze: Marcus Agrippa and imperial family
The Obelisk of the
Horologium Augusti
Piazza Montecitorio, Rome
Image Source Page: http://www.rome-in-italy.com/piazza-di-montecitorio.html
Image Source Page:
http://guides.wikinut.com/Secret-Places%2C-The-Sundial-of-Augustus/k_fp5u5p/
Horologium Augusti
(as restored by Domitian?)
Excavations searching for
Augustus’ sundial (1970s)
Via di Campo Marzio, Rome
Proposed reconstruction
of the Horologium Augusti
Image Source Page: http://michaelweishan.com/gardenblog/?tag=building-a-sundial
NB luna (carrara) marble
quarries
Augustus
Prima Porta Statue
After 20 BC
Adlocutio
Image Source Page:
http://www.fransite.net/Klassiek/Romeins/Statue-Augustus%20prima%20porta_jpg_orig.html
Doryphoros
Roman copy of an
bronze original of c. 440 BC
by Polykleitos
Image Source Page: http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/BodyLanguage/html/doryphoros1.html
Image Source Page: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/moore/rome/image/painted-augustus-prima-porta
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http://www.fransite.net/Klassiek/Romeins/Statue-Augustus%20prima%20porta_jpg_orig.html
Throughout his life his appearance was
distinguished and graceful. He did not dress
extravagantly and cared so little about his hair
that several barbers worked furiously on it at
the same time. His beard was either trimmed or
shaved while he continued reading or writing.
He had clear, bright eyes… few teeth, which
were small and dirty… his hair was yellowish
and slightly curly, his eyebrows met and his
nose jutted out then turned inwards. He was
neither dark nor fair as was rather short but with
well-proportioned limbs. On his body were
spots and callouses caused by excessive use of
the strigil… He sometimes limped and suffered
in general from a week constitution… Unable to
endure heat or cold, he always wore a hat
outdoors and in winter wore a woollen vest.
Suetonius, Augustus 79
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(NB: Tellus, Caelus, Aurora,
Hispania, Gallia(?),
Apollo, Diana, Parthian,
Romulus/Aeneas/Mars/
Tiberius (?). Return of
standards captured by
Parthians from Crassus in 53
BC?
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Augustus, Prima Porta statue (details of cuirass)