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2 - The Altars of the Lares Augusti

A View from the Streets of Augustan Iconography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2020

By
Amy Russell
Edited by
Amy Russell  and
Monica Hellström
Amy Russell
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Monica Hellström
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

A small group of altars to the Lares Augusti, set up by the vicomagistri of Rome’s urban neighbourhoods in the Augustan period, provides examples of imperial imagery produced by patrons of low social status. Their decoration shows the early effects of new Augustan motifs, but they are not merely examples of imagery trickling down from an original, central prototype. The patrons of these altars adapted and even invented images to express their relationship with the princeps for a local audience, and for viewers the altars were themselves sources of imagery, no less ‘official’ than any other source.

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Lares AugustivicivicomagistriLares altarscompitaRoman neighbourhoodsimage-makingaltarstrickle-down imageryimperial imagery in the private sphere
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The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery , pp. 25 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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