The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry

by Peter Heslin

In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, "I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,"--a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholarship makes the precise and detailed argument that painted illustrations of the Trojan War, both public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606064215
• ISBN13: 9781606064214
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.2"