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Title The Museum of Augustus : the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii,the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin poetry / Peter Heslin.
Author Heslin , Peter , author
Detail xiii, 350 pages : iillustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Abstract The Museum of Augustus is organized into three parts. The first is a comprehensive reconstruction of paintings from the remaining fragments of the cycle of Trojan frescoes that once decorated the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii. The second finds the echoes of these paintings in the Augustan-dated Portico of Philippus, now destroyed, which was itself a renovation of Rome's de facto temple of the Muses; in other words, a museum, both in displaying art and offering a meeting place for poets. And the third documents the responses of the Augustan poets to the decorative program of a monument that was intimately connected with their own literary aspirations. The book concludes by looking at the way Virgil, Horace, and Propertius conceptualized the architecture of their poetic projects in response to the Museum of Augustus
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