Psychology Today | 23.10.2026 01:16
The Roman emperor Augustus presided over a series of structures that bore his name, from the Forum of Augustus to the Ara Pacis Augustae (the Altar of Augustan Peace), which the Senate commissioned in his honor in 13 BC and which stood in the same district as his own mausoleum. Augustus’ self-reference was not subtle. The mausoleum’s visual proximity to the Altar of Peace, a monument designed to represent the grandeur of the Roman Empire, immortalized Augustus’ memory as inextricable from the civilization itself.
