Zusammenfassung der Ressource
building project
- Ara Pacis
- 13 BC
- 'the altar of peace'
- four panels with scene of the empire carved into it
- Terra Mater
- seated amid pastoral scene of
fertility and beauty
- Arrival of Aeneas in Italy
- Romulus and remus
- Augustus offering a libation to the
gods followed by his family and a
long line of senators
- Visual reminder
- historical event of the peace in 13BC with Parthia
- politcal
- Augustus as 'first among equals'
- Propaganda
- golden age of of Aeneas/ romulus
and remus and now augustus
- international
- greeks and Roman elements
- reminder of the harmony of the empire
- Arch of Augustus
- inscribe with list of chief magistrates and thriumphant
general s of the Republic who'd made Rome great
- Augustus trying to associate his
name with their past glories
- Family
- Agrippa
- Campus Agrippae
- Park
- Baths of Agrippa
- Built a number of Aquaducts
- Pantheon in 27BC
dedicated to Mars
and Venus
- Octavia
- built a portico and library to her son marcellus
- Temples
- Temple of Apollo
- vowed this in 36 BC when part of
Pallatine hill was struck by lightening
- rebuilt in 30BC in honour of Apollo at actium
- later furnished with porticoe and 2 libraries
- Temple of Mars Ultor
- vowed to build this as a result of
Avenging Caesar's death to
Philippi by killing liberators
- in niches on the back wall stood statues of
those who'd celebrated triumphs in the past
- Temple became centre for military affairs
- met to debate war or peace
- commandars started and ended
(if victorious) campagins there
- Other buildings
- Imperial household/ Domus Imperialis
- Augustus purposefully lived in a house of modest size
- all part of the image not to look conspicuouly powerful
- Forum Romanum
- Less of a building,
and more of a
grand public space
- Plebs
- Many urban plebs had no steady employment, so by introducing a massive
building programme this provided a wealth of employment opportunities