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Horace (65-8 BC)
Venusiae (south of Rome)
clerk in Treasury Dept., Rome, 41-38 BC
Vergil and Varius
in entourage of Maecenas 39 or 38 to 8 BC
Sabine Farm, 33 BC
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Horace, Selections
Centennial Hymn (17 BC)
- Phoebus (Apollo) and Diana
[Artemis]
- Sibyl; Sibylline
Books
- Ilithyia = Diana
- lex Iulia de adulteriis
coercendis (18 BC)
- lex Iulia de maritandis
ordinibus
- Parcae = Fates
- d. Vergil 19 BC
- "sea and land," cf.
Actium
- "seek his pronouncements"
(responsa petunt) as from a god
Ode 1.2 (29-28 BC)
- 3rd AD commentator says that
"storms" = signs from above demanding vengeance for
Julius Caesar's murder
- (Deucalion and) Pyrrha; great
flood
- Augur Apollo; Apollo = prophet
god
- Mars, father of Romulus, is
"Parent" of Rome
- "sudden whirlwind" = ref. to
story later in Livy, with Romulus whisked up to heaven in
whirwind
- "Prince" = princeps,
"first citizen"
Ode 1.12 (25-23 BC)
- "Parent" = Jupiter
- "Pallas Athena." Athena = Gk.
name for Minerva
- Marcus Atilius Regulus,
Carthage 256 BC; 250 back to Rome, then back to
Carthage
- Lucius Aemeilius Paullus, lost
battle to Hannibal 216 BC, died with men
- Caius Fabricius Luscinus,
resisted bribes to betray Rome; Vergil (Aeneid
6.844) calls him "poor but mighty."
- Marcus Furius Camillus (5 times
dicator) captured Veii from Etruscans, 392
BC
- Marcellus (son of Octavian's
sister Octavia) married Julia (Octavian's daughter) in 25
BC and made heir; but died in 23 BC
- "Julian star" gen. = family,
specifically = Augustus
- "Father" = Jupiter
- "Caesar" = Augustus
Ode 1.31 (28 BC or after)
- library/temple of Apollo
dedicated 28 BC
Ode 4.14 (15 BC)
- conscript fathers or citizens =
the two segments of the people of Rome. "SPQR" =
senatus populusque Romanus"
- "Pleiades" = winter
constellation; Hellenistic type reference
Ode 4.15
- Phoebus (Apollo), god of
poetry
- "fields in wealth," i.e.
agriculture after civil war
- Parthian standards, lost in 53
BC, returned by Tiberius in 20 BC
- Temple of War =
Janus
- licentiousness a ref. to laws
of 18 BC
Troy and Anchises,
Vergil
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Res Gestae (Index rerum a se gestarum)
bronze pillars, entrance to mausoleum in Rome (Suetonius,
Augustus 101)
Ankara (Temple of Rome and Augustus); Ankara center of
imperial cult
emphases:
- bestowal of honors on A. by community (by
consensus)
- expenditures by benefactor A.
- miltary achievements of age, imperium and
personal glory
- auctoritas which this entailed, leading to
appropriateness of title pater patriae
"Augustus" for service to (=restoration of) Republic
(Res
Gestae 34)
laurel
trees either side of doorposts of house
- laurel wreaths traditional for victors
- laurel tree scared to Apollo
corona
civica (oak wreath) over door of house
- traditionally for military victory
- awarded to Augustus ob cives servatos (for
saving the citizens)
- oak sacred to Jupiter; Jupiter's eagle
clipeus
virtutis (golden shield) in Curia
- awarded for bravery, clemency, justice, piety
(virtus, clementia, iustitia, pietas)
- set up in Curia Julia; copies throughout
Empire
Sanctuary of Apollo on Palatine (ded. 9 October 28
BC)
- statue of Apollo
Actius, on rostra; lyre; libation bowl and altar
- sculpture on doors: slaying of children of Niobe;
Gauls driven out of Delphi. Cf. Delphi
- instead of Augustus in chariot (normal for Victors),
marble quadriga of Apollo and Diana (by classical Greek
sculptor Lysias)
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Res
Gestae
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Augustan imagery
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sculpture
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Caere,
portrait, 1st cent. BC (Becatti fig. 268)
Augustus,
Prima Porta statue, detail of head (Zanker 83; Ployclitus,
Doryphoros, head, copy (Zanker 84)
Augustus,
Prima Porta statue (Zanker 148a)
Augustus,
Prima Porta statue, detail of cuirass (Zanker 148b)
Augustus,
togate statue (Zanker 104)
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architecture
Italy
Greece
Asia Minor
Vitruvius
Architectural Orders
Doric
Ionic, Corinthian
Tuscan
post and lintel
arch
Greek temple
architecture
Athens, Parthenon (mid-5th BC)
peripteral
Etruscan temple
architecture
Vitruvian description
platform
Roman temple
architecture
Graeco-Roman
classicizing tendencies
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Greek
architectural orders
Greek architecture
Etruscan architecture
Roman architecture
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painting
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Boscotrecase
painting,
"III Style"
painting,
"III Style"
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Gemma
Augustea
Gold
coin, obverse, bust of Augustus, ca. 27 B.C. - 20 B.C.
(Boston Museum)(Perseus site)
Bronze
coin, obverse, togate Augustus wearing radiate crown ("DIVUS
AUGUSTUS PATER"), 22-23 AD (Boston Museum)(Perseus
site)
Gold
coin, obverse, head of Augustus with radiate crown ("DIVUS
AUGUSTUS"), 68-69 AD (Boston Museum)(Perseus site)
Bronze
coin, laureate bust of Augustus, with Victoria, 5 BC (Boston
Museum)(Perseus site)
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