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Ara Pacis Augustae

Ara Pacis Augustae. Pax Romana. Consecrated on Campus Martius on July 4,13 BCE Dedicated on Jan. 30,9 BCE( Livia’s birthday) to celebrate Augustus’ return from Hispania et Gallia with military victories. Sept. 23, 63BCE. Before 2006. Ara Pacis and Mausoleum of Augustus. After 2006.

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Ara Pacis Augustae

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  1. AraPacisAugustae PaxRomana

  2. Consecrated on Campus Martius on July 4,13 BCE • Dedicated on Jan. 30,9 BCE(Livia’s birthday) • to celebrate Augustus’ return from Hispania et Gallia with military victories

  3. Sept. 23, 63BCE

  4. Before 2006 AraPacis and Mausoleum of Augustus After 2006

  5. Built on the Campus Martius to restore “MosMaiorum”=morals of our ancestors

  6. MultasGratiasTibiAgimus.El Duce

  7. Fascist Regime fasces

  8. Oct, 25-26, 1936

  9. “Romanita” of Fascist Regime

  10. 1938 restoration and construction

  11. 2003-2006 restoration of restoration

  12. Architect Meier on April 22,2006

  13. AraPacis 34 feet 10 inches 38 feet 2 inches opening 11 feet 9 inches square

  14. Nero minted 66AD in Lugdunum (BIRTHPLACE OF Claudius) SC=senatusconsultum=by degree of the senate

  15. Aeneas sacrificing to the PenatesAeneid , book 8

  16. Bk. 8, 41-45 Tiberinus speaks to Aeneas in a dream “And now, lest you think this sleep’s idle fancy, you’ll find a huge sow lying on the shore, under the oak trees, that has farrowed a litter of thirty young, a white sow, lying on the ground, with white piglets round her teats, That place shall be your city, there’s true rest from your labours.” 81-85 “But behold a sudden wonder, marvellous{sic} to the sight, gleaming white through the trees, a sow the same colour as her white litter, seen lying on the green bank: dutiful Aeneas, carrying the sacred vessel, sets her with her young before the altar and sacrifices her to you, to you indeed, most powerful Juno.” http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVIII.htm#_Toc3637698

  17. Lars and Penates=Household gods

  18. Romulus

  19. Tellus(Fruitful Mother Earth)

  20. Augustus’ Ideals for life • Family • Nation and agriculture • Empire at peace

  21. Senatorial procession

  22. Imperial procession Augustus

  23. Flaminespriests who attend state religious ceremonies

  24. Lictor M. Agrippa Gaius Tiberius Livia

  25. Tiberius Antonia Germanicus Drusus Julia

  26. Antonia Major DomitiusDomitius Father of Nero

  27. Woman with finger to mouth-silence about Drusus’ death in 9BCE

  28. Imperial family

  29. Bottom of altar around the monumentacanthus plant

  30. Altar itself

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