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.