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Ara Pacis Augustae. Pax Romana. Consecrated on Campus Martius on July 4,13 BCE Dedicated on Jan. 30,9 BCE( Livia’s birthday) to celebrate Augustus’ return from Hispania et Gallia with military victories. Sept. 23, 63BCE. Before 2006. Ara Pacis and Mausoleum of Augustus. After 2006.
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Consecrated on Campus Martius on July 4,13 BCE • Dedicated on Jan. 30,9 BCE(Livia’s birthday) • to celebrate Augustus’ return from Hispania et Gallia with military victories
Before 2006 AraPacis and Mausoleum of Augustus After 2006
Built on the Campus Martius to restore “MosMaiorum”=morals of our ancestors
AraPacis 34 feet 10 inches 38 feet 2 inches opening 11 feet 9 inches square
Nero minted 66AD in Lugdunum (BIRTHPLACE OF Claudius) SC=senatusconsultum=by degree of the senate
Bk. 8, 41-45 Tiberinus speaks to Aeneas in a dream “And now, lest you think this sleep’s idle fancy, you’ll find a huge sow lying on the shore, under the oak trees, that has farrowed a litter of thirty young, a white sow, lying on the ground, with white piglets round her teats, That place shall be your city, there’s true rest from your labours.” 81-85 “But behold a sudden wonder, marvellous{sic} to the sight, gleaming white through the trees, a sow the same colour as her white litter, seen lying on the green bank: dutiful Aeneas, carrying the sacred vessel, sets her with her young before the altar and sacrifices her to you, to you indeed, most powerful Juno.” http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVIII.htm#_Toc3637698
Augustus’ Ideals for life • Family • Nation and agriculture • Empire at peace
Imperial procession Augustus
Antonia Major DomitiusDomitius Father of Nero
Woman with finger to mouth-silence about Drusus’ death in 9BCE