Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy

This book examines ancient Roman monuments made by the Augustales, civic groups composed primarily of wealthy ex-slaves.

List of contents

Part I. Representation in the Funerary Realm: 1. VIVIR AVG IDEM QQ: text, image, and context; 2. Ob honorem bisellii: the grammar of representation; Part II. Augustales in Their Meeting Places: 3. Templum Augusti quod est Augustalium: municipal and private Augustea; 4. Curia Augustiana: civic standing and the Collegio degli Augustali at Herculaneum; 5. Res communis Augustalium: group identity in the Sacello degli Augustali at Misenum XXX; 6. Ob Eximiam Benivolentiam: donors and Augustales in second-century Misenum; Part III. Monuments in Public: 7. In statuas ponendas: sculpting a public persona; 8. In vias sternendas: paving your way in the Roman town; Conclusions.

About the author

Margaret L. Laird is a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware. She has received grants from the American Academy in Rome, the Getty Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. She is co-editor of Walls and Memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio), from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond (2005). She has published in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome and has contributed essays to several edited volumes.

Summary

This book examines ancient Roman statues and their bases, tombs, altars, and panels commemorating gifts of civic beneficence made by the Augustales, civic groups composed primarily of wealthy ex-slaves. These objects reveal how ordinary Romans expressed their communal identities.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Laird, Margaret L Laird, Margaret L. Laird, Margaret L. (University of Delaware) Laird, Laird Margaret L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107008229
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00822-9
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings