Forum Of Augustus
41 53'40 "N 12 29'13" E / 41.89444, 12.48694
| Forum of Augustus | |
|---|---|
 The Forum of Augustus with the Temple of Mars the Avenger | |
| Place Built | Imperial Forums |
| Construction date | 2 av. AD |
| Ordered by | Augustus |
| Building Type | Roman Forum |
| List of monuments of ancient Rome | |
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Forum of Augustus is one of the Imperial Forums in Rome. It was built in the late first century BC. AD under the reign of Emperor Augustus.
Summary |
Origins
Octavian Augustus had autographed by the year 2 BC. BC this new forum, adjacent to the Roman Forum and the one built by Julius Caesar. According to Suetonius and to have an authoritarian person expropriate the necessary land, he reduced his project at the refusal of some owners to sell.
However, we do not know on what date the actual work began. Bernard Andreae proposes to date the Forum of Augustus based on similar structures in the provinces, as the Maison Carree , a period between -19 and -12. The consecration of the temple of Mars Ultor took place in the year 2 BC. AD , marking the end of work. It placed the signs of Crassus taken to the Romans in the battle of Carrhae which Augustus had awarded restitution by the Parthians.
Description
Recent excavations have uncovered the remains of the Forum and the gigantic temple whose three Corinthian columns 15 meters high is a wonderful testimony. The entire 125 m 118 m flanked by porticoes side was dominated by the Temple of Mars the Avenger. This was based on a wall 33 meters high, the highest wall of the Roman city that housed the Fire Risk Forum's turbulent neighborhood Subura nearby.
The iconographic program of the forum was meaningful. Augustus in quadriga was enthroned at the center of the square and it was called " Father of the Fatherland ", a title granted him in the Senate 2 av. AD. On each side, deep porches, two large exedras semicircular who was facing, marble statues and bronze, paintings, reliefs showing all the great men of Rome and the Julian family : Aeneas and Romulus , Ascanius , or the great men of the Res Publica (Summi viri) that Augustus offered to "serve as an example to himself and his successors" : Scipio Africanus , Marius , Sulla , Pompey , Lucullus. Note the unifying and consensual character of this group of political opponents as Marius and Sulla, or Pompey and Lucullus.
Sources
Notes
- Suetonius , Lives of the Twelve Caesars , Augustus, 29
- Augustus , Res Gestae, 9
- Bernard Andreae, The Art of Ancient Rome, p. 109
- Suetonius , Lives of the Twelve Caesars , Augustus, 31
References
- Suetonius , translated by Henry Ailloud, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, The paperback, Paris, 1961
- Bernard Andreae, The Art of Ancient Rome, Mazenod, 1973, republished in 1988 ( ISBN 2850880043 )
- for more information: Filippo Coarelli, "Archaeological Guide to Rome", Hachette Literature, 2001 (translated from Italian)
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