The Senate voted to build the Ara Pacis to welcome home Augustus after restoring order in the western provinces, while Agrippa pursued a similar mission in the East. Agrippa had settled the turmoil in the Bosporus by arranging for Queen Dynamis to marry King Polemon of Pontos, thereby uniting the two realms. Brian Rose (1990) explained that two boys on the Ara Pacis who do not wear togas are foreign princes in Rome in 13 BC exactly when Augustus and Agrippa returned from their foreign tours. Rose considered the older boy on the south frieze an eastern prince, probably Aspurgos, the future king of the Bosporus. He speculated that Queen Dynamis had come to Rome with Agrippa, and that she is the woman who puts her hand on the boy’s head. Rose ...
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This dissertation asserts that opposition to Augustus and the establishment of the Principate was pe...
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Two damaged and partially restored Roman portraits in the collection of the British Museum, previous...
The Ara Pacis presents the most important surviving programmatic statement of the middle years of th...
Vesta and the Vestal Virgins represented the very core of Roman cultural identity, and Augustus posi...
PhD ThesisThis inter-disciplinary thesis traces the influence of Greek images of monarchy on Rome, ...
© 2014 Dr. Monique-Louise WebberThe Ara Pacis Augustae epitomized the benefice of Augustan rule. Its...
The official images of the empresses Plotina and Sabina were changed during the period of the adopti...
textThis dissertation studies five Roman emperors––Augustus, Domitian, Antoninus Pius, Septimius Se...
In the "Aeneid," Vergil dramatically announces through the character of Anchises that Caesar Augustu...
Augustus dramatically enlarged the empire, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum and Raetia, e...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
The end of the Roman Republic was affected by decades of civil war, leaving the Roman population des...
Amor plays a curious and complicated role in the Augustan regime, and especially in Augustus’s secre...
Controversy over the identification of the figures on the Belvedere altar has long hindered consensu...
This dissertation asserts that opposition to Augustus and the establishment of the Principate was pe...
In 27 BC the Senate conferred the cognomen Augustus on C. Julius Caesar (Octavianus) for his renewal...
Two damaged and partially restored Roman portraits in the collection of the British Museum, previous...
The Ara Pacis presents the most important surviving programmatic statement of the middle years of th...
Vesta and the Vestal Virgins represented the very core of Roman cultural identity, and Augustus posi...
PhD ThesisThis inter-disciplinary thesis traces the influence of Greek images of monarchy on Rome, ...
© 2014 Dr. Monique-Louise WebberThe Ara Pacis Augustae epitomized the benefice of Augustan rule. Its...
The official images of the empresses Plotina and Sabina were changed during the period of the adopti...
textThis dissertation studies five Roman emperors––Augustus, Domitian, Antoninus Pius, Septimius Se...
In the "Aeneid," Vergil dramatically announces through the character of Anchises that Caesar Augustu...
Augustus dramatically enlarged the empire, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum and Raetia, e...
When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military ch...
The end of the Roman Republic was affected by decades of civil war, leaving the Roman population des...