Ara Pacis

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I founds this very useful and interesting site (https://www.reed.edu/ara-pacis/) while I was looking for information about Augustus’ “Horologium” . My interest was prompted by the discussion of “scrup.” (scrupulus) here http://discourse.textkit.com/t/copernicus-translation-help-needed/18209/1

It has many diagrams and pictures relating to the Augustan monuments of the northern Campus Martius.

I can also recommend this article which I can send to anyone who is interested and doesn’t have access.

Peter Heslin, Augustus, Domitian and the So-Called Horologium Augusti, The Journal of Roman Studies , 2007, Vol. 97 (2007), pp. 1-20.

There is quite a lot of misleading information around about the “Horologium” so it is useful to have this overview.

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Thank you, Seneca!
I particularly like the application of colour to each of the panels. It must have been a breathtaking sight for visitors of the post Augustan era. The pictures and maps are brilliant! I could have spent the rest of the afternoon looking them over! That other Seneca however is beckoning me back to letter 47!

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That’s awesome, thank you for sharing this! I’ve been there several times, but I’ve never seen the light show. I really have to find out if I can go see that next time (whenever that will be :unamused: )