Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
The cityscape of ancient Rome was filled with opulent buildings that created armatures— fluid, connective thoroughfares throughout the city. These armatures came together to form narrative pathways. The triumphal route, the memorialized, celebratory course of victorious generals, is one such narrative pathway. Among other strategies to legitimize his sole rule, Augustus constructed a self-promoting armature along the triumphal route, thereby linking him with the triumph. This paper examines how the construction of the Augustan armature along the triumphal route promoted Augustus and how the Flavians responded to it in advertising their own legitimacy in the wake of a civil war.
Advisor: Beth Severy-Hoven
Classics Department
Recommended Citation
Gradoz, Machal E., "All Roads Lead Through Rome: Imperial Armatures on the Triumphal Route" (2012). Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects. 14.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/classics_honors/14
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