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  • Chapter 3 - Questioning Consensus on the Palatine

  • Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
    Published online:
    18 September 2018
    Print publication:
    11 October 2018, pp 83-141

  • Summary

    After victory at Actium left him master of the Roman world, Augustus represented himself to the city by building a temple to Apollo closely integrated with his own home, a library, and a portico on the Palatine Hill (28 BCE). The poets, however, largely sidestep the political messages of this building complex, instead asserting interpretive liberty by voicing perspectives marginalized by Augustus’ supposed consensus universorum (consensus of all the orders). Propertius’ elegies 2.31 and 32 define an aesthetic and moral code of toleration in tacit resistance to Augustus’ intrusions into private life and attempts to control female bodies. The Danaids of the portico prompt meditation, by Horace and Vergil, on individuals’ moral autonomy in arbitrating among the competing claims of justice, clemency, and obedience to paternal authority. In his revisitation of the Palatine from exile in Tristia 3.1, Ovid shows how Augustus’ self-advertising falls short of reality – not least, with his exclusion of books from the Palatine’s supposedly inclusive public library, quickly corrected by the people’s welcoming hands and private judgment. Together, these poets verbally reconstruct the Palatine as a counter-imperial space that celebrates readers’ mental autonomy even as their bodies and books were coming under patriomonialist control.

  • 4 - The Ageing Body: Drunken Old Woman

  • Rosemary Barrow, Roehampton University, London
  • Prepared for publication by Michael Silk, King's College London
  • Book:
    Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
    Published online:
    21 September 2018
    Print publication:
    11 October 2018, pp 62-75
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  • Chapter 6 - The Last Word?

  • Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
    Published online:
    18 September 2018
    Print publication:
    11 October 2018, pp 240-254

  • Summary

    This brief final chapter examines Augustus’ attempts to fix his posthumous memory through his deathbed performance and his will. Suetonius and Cassius Dio report that the princeps left careful instructions for his funeral, a list of his accomplishments (the Res Gestae), and advice for future governance. On all these counts, however, audiences continued to modify the emperor’s plans and intervene in his public image. Augustus’ funeral procession, the Monumentum Ancyranum, and the object history of his bronze statue at Meroë illustrate audiences’ power over imperial signs even after the death of their author. This mirrors the co-authorial role and interpretive autonomy that subjects already enjoyed over images of the principate even during Augustus’ lifetime, as discussed throughout this study. This final chapter thereby confirms the poets’ and princeps’ shared dependence on their audiences, showing how this pivotal figure in world history remains the enduring, remarkably democratic collective creation of his subjects’ imaginations.

  • Chapter 4 - Remapping the Forum Augustum

  • Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
    Published online:
    18 September 2018
    Print publication:
    11 October 2018, pp 142-184

  • Summary

    This chapter analyzes the Forum Augustum (2 BCE) as an ideological space that responded to and inspired literary debate about Augustus’ place within Roman history and heuristics. The Forum’s statue gallery of great Romans refigures Vergil’s parade of heroes in Aeneid 6 in monumental form. Both display an interest in mapping associated with Augustus’ expansion and administrative consolidation of Rome’s geographical empire. However, Aeneas’ exploration of Italy and descent to the Underworld also call attention to the deaths and disappointments that are omitted from official maps and monuments, encouraging readers to use interpretive autonomy in navigating imperial spaces. Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 1 does just that in remapping Augustan monumental space for private, erotic purposes. The poet’s prediction of a triumph for Gaius Caesar parodies the militaristic values espoused by the Forum Augustum and suggests developing kinship between Rome and its enemy Parthia. Yet Gaius’ early death would ironize this triumph and align him with the Marcellus and other casualties of Roman history. In charting avenues for hermeneutic invasion of the physical city, these poems question Augustus’ ability to transform Rome into a coherent urban narrative and undermine his buildings’ imperialist rhetoric.

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