Book contents
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Cultural Memory?
- Part I Writing Cultural Memory
- Chapter 2 War and Cultural Memory at the Beginnings of Latin Literature
- Chapter 3 Creating Roman Memories of Plautus
- Chapter 4 Comedy and Its Pasts
- Chapter 5 Semper Manebit: Poetry and Cultural Memory Theory in Cicero’s De Legibus
- Chapter 6 Varro and the Re-foundation of Roman Cultural Memory Through Genealogy and Humanitas
- Chapter 7 Cultural Memory, from Monument to Poem: The Case of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus in the Augustan Poets
- Chapter 8 Monumenta and the Fallibility of Memory in the Odes
- Chapter 9 Constructing Cultural Memory in Ovid’s Fasti: The Case of Servius Tullius and Fortuna
- Part II Politicising Cultural Memory
- Part III Building Cultural Memory
- Part IV Locating Cultural Memory
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Chapter 7 - Cultural Memory, from Monument to Poem: The Case of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus in the Augustan Poets
from Part I - Writing Cultural Memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2023
Book contents
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Cultural Memory?
- Part I Writing Cultural Memory
- Chapter 2 War and Cultural Memory at the Beginnings of Latin Literature
- Chapter 3 Creating Roman Memories of Plautus
- Chapter 4 Comedy and Its Pasts
- Chapter 5 Semper Manebit: Poetry and Cultural Memory Theory in Cicero’s De Legibus
- Chapter 6 Varro and the Re-foundation of Roman Cultural Memory Through Genealogy and Humanitas
- Chapter 7 Cultural Memory, from Monument to Poem: The Case of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus in the Augustan Poets
- Chapter 8 Monumenta and the Fallibility of Memory in the Odes
- Chapter 9 Constructing Cultural Memory in Ovid’s Fasti: The Case of Servius Tullius and Fortuna
- Part II Politicising Cultural Memory
- Part III Building Cultural Memory
- Part IV Locating Cultural Memory
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Summary
In 36 BC, after the battle of Naulochus, Octavian decided to dedicate a temple to Apollo in memory of his victory over Sextus Pompeius and to have it built on the Palatine, on the spot where lightning had struck, which was taken to be a sign.1 The temple, however, would not be erected until 28 BC, after the battle of Actium, and would both commemorate Naulochus and Actium. Apollo was effectively linked to the battle of Actium: after his victory, Octavian restored the temple of Apollo at the entrance of the Ambracian Gulf; he also consecrated a sanctuary to Apollo on the site of his camp at Actium.
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- Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome , pp. 115 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023