Title: Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the Meaning of the Ara Pacis Augustae.
1Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the Meaning of the Ara
Pacis Augustae. Paul Rehak The Art Bulletin,
Vol. 83, No.2. (Jun., 2001), pp.190-208.
2The western screen surrounding the Ara Pacis
Augustae
3Zoomed shot of the southern panel relief on the
western screen being examined.
435. When I held my thirteenth consulship, Senate,
equestrian order, and the entire Roman people
called me "father of country pater patriae"
and decided that this should be inscribed in the
vestibule of my house, in the Julian Senate
house, and in the Augustan Forum on the pedestal
of the chariot which was set up in my honour by
senatus consultum. When I wrote this I was in my
seventy-sixth year. The Accomplishments of
Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti)
5The Belvedere Altar
6Above image is a magnified view of the top left
hand corner of the panel to the right.
7Depictions of Numa in First Century B.C. coinage
8Diagram of the Ara Pacis Augustae to represent
Augustan Rule
9Ita duo deinceps reges, alius alia via, ille
bello, his pace, civitatem auxerunt cum valida
tum temperata et belli et pacis artibus erat
civitas. Livy, Ab urbe condita (1.21.5)
10Zoomed shot of the southern panel relief on the
western screen being examined.
11Photo gallery of the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome