CLA389H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pontifex Maximus, Pediment, Sept
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Augustus boats about building a curia/senate house, among others. It was a multi-purpose, public temple: ppl could give speeches from it in the forum like julius caesar was famous for himself reminder of the type of god now sponsoring augustus: help augustus navigate the social government. Constructs temples on capitoline hill (with the capitoline triad the heart of rome) Spain, b/c augustus wanted them to know what was going on in rome: copy of statue of jupiter tonans: less roman-style, more greek (beard and long hair). So augustus repurposes it somewhat as an entrance to the capitolinus temple says zeus came to him in a dream to complain. But he is also an example himself: earlier in the republic there were not noticeable temples to mars in the public, inside the pomoerium (sanctuary on the via appia, circus flaminius, campus.
