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  • Chapter 1 - The Mutual Constitution of Augustus

  • 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 1-34
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    From Augustus’ deathbed request for applause to the poets’ use of the triumph as a symbol for their glory, the Romans understood that audiences played a vital role in creating meaning, power, and fame. This introductory chapter surveys scenes of interpretation in Vergil and Ovid alongside evidence for the contexts, habits, beliefs, and educational practices informing the consumption of words and images to argue that reading during the age of Augustus was understood as an active process with political implications. The Augustan poets use their own bidirectional relationships with readers, mediated by texts, as a way to explore the mutual constitution of Augustan power, including its reliance on audiences’ use and judgment of political symbols and rituals. This chapter thus presents a bottom-up, audience-oriented model for understanding the iconography of Rome’s developing monarchy not as imperial “propaganda” but as a collectively constructed res publica (public property) in which audiences continued to exert interpretive liberty.

  • 2 - The Female Body: Aphrodite of Cnidos

  • 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
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    21 September 2018
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    11 October 2018, pp 35-48
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  • Chapter 5 - The Triumph of the Imagination

  • Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
    Published online:
    18 September 2018
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    11 October 2018, pp 185-239

  • Summary

    In this chapter’s analysis, Augustan poets’ recurring triumphal fantasies serve to explore readers’ role in sustaining imperial power. As a ceremony that communicated faraway victories to urban audiences and itself was publicized abroad, the triumph highlights the emperor’s reliance on representation to convey information and authority across Rome’s territorial expanse. Yet Vergil’s shield of Aeneas questions the accuracy and objectivity of such triumphal representations, including its own. Propertius 3.4 suggests that triumphal representations matter more than reality to audiences who, as Ovid shows his love poems, anyway appropriate them for private purposes. But it is his exile poems on imaginary triumphs (Tristia 3.12, 4.2, Ex Ponto 2.1, 3.4) that Ovid most powerfully deconstructs imperial power’s reliance on signs wholly separate from reality, at least from a provincial perspective. Together, these poems illustrate poets’ role in sustaining the emperor’s power as well as the high stakes of their interventions in his public image. They also present reading, broadly understood, as the process that unites empire, from urban audiences’ validating viewership of triumphs to provincial subjects’ imaginative participation in Roman symbols and ceremonies. These poems thus reconstitute empire as an imaginative republic of letters.

  • Chapter 2 - History in Light of the Sidus Iulium

  • 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 35-82

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    This chapter tracks the iconographical development of the Julian star (sidus Iulium) alongside the Augustan poets’ evolving, retrospective interpretations of Caesar’s deification. The symbol of the Julian star originated with a comet that appeared over Julius Caesar’s funeral games (44 BCE) and was hailed as a sign that he had joined the gods. Scholars since Servius have assumed that Caesar’s heir, the future Augustus, prompted this interpretation to advance his ambitions as the “son of a god.” Historical sources closer to the time, however, argue against the idea that Octavian ‘spun’ the comet or curated its use within Roman culture. Furthermore, coins and a constellation of allusions to the sidus in Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Manilius encode heterogeneous, and frequently skeptical, responses to the principate. The idea that Augustus masterminded this symbol instead originates belatedly as viewers like Ovid (in his account of Caesar’s deification in Metamorphoses 15) retrojected the emperor’s mature power onto his earlier career. The sidus thereby speaks to Romans’ difficulty in interpreting events without hindsight, their subsequent tendency to reinterpret history in conformity with a dominant narrative, and their anxieties about the future of Julian rule.

Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
  • Rosemary Barrow
  • Prepared for publication by Michael Silk
  • Published online:
    21 September 2018
    Print publication:
    11 October 2018
  • Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.

The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
  • Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography
  • Nandini B. Pandey
  • Published online:
    18 September 2018
    Print publication:
    11 October 2018
  • Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals. This book illuminates Roman subjects' vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets' sustained exploration of audiences' active part in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome's evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike.

Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture
  • Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations
  • Edited by Diana Y. Ng, Molly Swetnam-Burland
  • Published online:
    17 September 2018
    Print publication:
    06 September 2018
  • This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact, centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays in this volume, written by a team of international experts, collectively argue that reuse was a natural feature of human manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of social pressure. Reuse often reflected appreciation for the function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras. Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and reuse, this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.

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