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Family Values and the Developing Narrative of the Roman State: Reading the Ara Pacis in Context

Family Values and the Developing Narrative of the Roman State: Reading the Ara Pacis in Context. Julia Dauer 7 December 2009.

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Family Values and the Developing Narrative of the Roman State: Reading the Ara Pacis in Context

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  1. Family Values and the Developing Narrative of the Roman State: Reading the Ara Pacis in Context Julia Dauer 7 December 2009

  2. On the Ara Pacis, “images of peace and security come in the individually depicted forms of members of Augustus’s family, both human and divine. The men, women, and children of Augustus’s house are thus shown to exemplify and ensure the productive peace which Augustus brought to Rome – a clear step toward a defined public role for his private family.” Severy, B. Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire. London, 2003.104.

  3. Ramsby and Severy suggest the ideal of a “domesticated empire” with Augustus as father and the imperial family as a microcosm for the Roman state in its entirety. Ramsby, T.R., and B. Severy. (2007). “Gender, Sex, and Domestication of the Empire in the Art of the Augustan Age,” Arethusa (40.1), 43.

  4. Augustus’s Family Narrative: Milestones • Lex Iulia, 18-7 BCE • Ara Pacis, 13 BCE - 9 BCE • Augustus as pater patriae, 2 BCE

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