Aspectos da arquitetura romana no governo de Otávio Augusto: construção e perpetuação da memória nos templos de Apolo Palatino e de Marte Vingador (Séc. I A.C.)

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Macsuelber de Cássio Barros da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/10764
• topic: Augusto; Apolo Palatino; Marte vingador; Memória; Augustus; Apollo Palatinus; Mars ultor; Memory; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA ANTIGA E MEDIEVAL

We investigated in this Thesis the process of construction and perpetuation of memory and of an entire imperial imaginary during the government of Augustus; process that was established, among other ways, through the use of architecture, images and other products of material culture. The main theme of this process were the military victories and triumphs of Augustus, who used their symbolic value to legitimize his political power, which was achieved, among other things, through a religious and architectural restoration in Rome, as the capital of the Empire and a base for the development of a monumental architecture. We seek to analyze the different relations existing between Augustus' buildings with the memory and the imaginary that he wanted to perpetuate at every moment of his government, reflecting on the different ways of relating to a memory in the formation, change, maintenance and/or perpetuation of a political-religious imaginary in and of the Augustan period. Therefore, in our methodological endeavor in the topographic and architectural study of Augustus’ Rome, we used the analysis of textual and archaeological documents, as well as the numismatic evidence, in order to establish how architecture was used by him as a strategy of power. Among the various constructions that we analyze in this Thesis, we emphasize the first great architectural complex built by Augustus, dedicated to Apollo Palatinus and consecrated in 28 BC, and the last great architectural complex built by him, dedicated to Mars Ultor and consecrated in 2 BC. From a work of Templar comparison that went beyond the field of Architecture and encompassed the power system that inspired the formation of the Principate, we highlight the similarities and differences between the way of using memory in both architectural complexes and their relations with certain contexts and with the images to be propagated, in which the figure of Augustus was central.