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Lecture 6. The Golden Age
I. The Home of Augustus House of normal aristocrat, but...
-Built
next to hut of
-Attributes
of a "palace": Laurels / corona civica;
Altar of Vesta; embassies; holds Senate; "Palace"
from Palatine hill
II. Urban Administration
A.
Division of City: 14 regiones; 265 vici (neighborhoods)
B.
Aqueducts: Agrippa's aedileship
in 33; 264 slaves coordinate; new aqueduct (19 BC)
C.
Vigiles
(firemen): 3500 freedmen under praefectus vigilum
D.
Urban Cohorts (police): 3,000 men headed by Urban Prefect
E.
Praefectus Annonae (prefect of grain supply)
F.
Preplanned policies or ad hoc responses?: mutual interest in peace
III. "From Brick to Marble" (Suet. DA 28)
A.
The Emperor and the People
-Theater
of Marcellus: seats 15,000; emperor
meets people
-Baths
of Agrippa: First of imperial public
baths + Porticus Vipsaniae
+ Pantheon
-Campus
Martius:
recreation center (Strabo 5.3.8)
B.
Augustan Peace
Ara Pacis (voted 13 BC; dedicated Jan. 30, 9 BC)
-Religious
procession; Family
-Earth
with children: peace and fertility
C.
Augustan Time
Horologium Augusti (12 BC); floor
D.
Augustan History
-Forum
of Augustus (dedicated 2 BC)
-Temple of
Mars Ultor (Mars the Avenger); Pediment
= Mars, Venus, Divus
Iulius
-Portico:
-Past
as model for the future: Vergil Aeneid 6.790ff
V. Dynasty and the House of Augustus
A.
No male heir; outlives heirs
Marcellus
>> Agrippa >> Gaius and Lucius >>
Tiberius
B.
Mausoleum with Res Gestae: latest and
greatest Roman hero
