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The Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin, "Altar of Augustan Peace"; commonly shortened to Ara Pacis) is an altar in Rome dedicated to the Pax Romana. [1] The monument was commissioned by the Roman Senate on July 4, 13 BC to honour the return of Augustus to Rome after three years in Hispania and Gaul [2] [3] and consecrated on January 30, 9 BC. [4]
The Ara Pacis is a symbol of the Augustan era, constructed between 13 BC and 9 BC. The general Italic approach is mixed with neo-Attic reliefs and a frieze in the style of Pergamon; all combined without precise logical relationships between architectural parts and decorations. Only the small frieze on the central altar is considered a truly ...
The portraits of the Julio-Claudian dynasty placed close to the entry The Ara Pacis inside the Museum The fascist-era copy of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, placed on the back of the Museum Designed by the American architect Richard Meier and built in steel, travertine , glass and plaster, the museum is the first major architectural and urban ...
Augustus commissioned an altar of peace in her honour on the Campus Martius called Ara Pacis, [3] and the emperor Vespasian built a temple for her on called the Templum Pacis. Pax had a festival held for her on January 30.
The order to construct the Ara Pacis was no doubt part of this announcement. [citation needed] AR Antoninianus of Gordian III, struck at Antioch 243–244 AD with Pax Augusta on the reverse. Augustus faced a problem making peace an acceptable mode of life for the Romans, who had been at war with one power or another continuously for 200 years.
By the 1st century AD, the she-wolf was common in both Rome and the provinces. She and the twins were featured on the elaborate Ara Pacis, built in honor of Augustus and dedicated to Pax, the goddess of peace. [13] Coins with their depiction were minted and widely circulated.
Besides its function as a solar clock, the obelisk was oriented in such manner so as to cast its shadow on the nearby Ara Pacis on 23 September, Augustus's birthday, which coincided with the autumnal equinox. The reason for this orientation of the sunlight alludes to the peace that Augustus had always strived for by directing the light to the ...
The woman on the Ara Pacis panel wears a brill mistaken for a diadem. Dynamis’ grandfather, Mithridates VI, associated himself with the god Dionysus. Not surprisingly, there was a sanctuary of Dionysus in Panticapaeum, the Bosporan capital. The presence of this foreign prince and others on the Ara Pacis illustrates the success of Roman ...