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The First Hall of Fame ggeeiiggeerr__ii--iivv..iinndddd ii 66//1100//22000088 55::5577::1144 PPMM Mnemosyne Supplements History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity Edited by Susan E. Alcock (Brown University) Thomas Harrison (Liverpool) Willem M. Jongman (Groningen) H. S. Versnel (Leiden) VOLUME 295 ggeeiiggeerr__ii--iivv..iinndddd iiii 66//1100//22000088 55::5577::1166 PPMM The First Hall of Fame A Study of the Statues in the Forum Augustum By Joseph Geiger LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 ggeeiiggeerr__ii--iivv..iinndddd iiiiii 66//1100//22000088 55::5577::1166 PPMM On the cover: The remains of the north-western exedra. Fototeca Unione, American Academy in Rome. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geiger, Joseph. The fi rst hall of fame : a study of the statues in the Forum Augustum / by Joseph Geiger. p. cm. — (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 295) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-16869-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Statues—Rome. 2. Forum of Augustus (Rome, Italy) 3. Halls of fame. I. Title. II. Series. NB115.G45 2008 937’.07—dc22 2008022004 ISSN 0169-8958 ISBN 978 90 04 16869 5 Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands ggeeiiggeerr__ii--iivv..iinndddd iivv 66//1100//22000088 55::5577::1177 PPMM CONTENTS List of Illustrations ...................................................................... vii Preface ......................................................................................... ix List of Abbreviations .................................................................. xi Chapter One Introduction ...................................................... 1 Chapter Two The Greek Background .................................... 13 Chapter Three The Roman Background ............................... 25 Chapter Four A Marble Gallery for a City of Marble .......... 53 Chapter Five The Heroes ........................................................ 117 Chapter Six After Augustus: The Age of Bronze .................. 163 Chapter Seven The Impact of the Gallery of Heroes ........... 179 Bibliography ................................................................................ 205 Index ........................................................................................... 219 ggeeiiggeerr__ff11__vv--xxii..iinndddd vv 66//1100//22000088 44::0011::5511 PPMM ggeeiiggeerr__ff11__vv--xxii..iinndddd vvii 66//1100//22000088 44::0011::5522 PPMM LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fig. 1 Plan of the Forum Augustum ............................................ 58 Fig. 2 Drawing of a statue in the Forum Augustum with titulus and elogium ...................................................................... 62 Fig. 3 The remains of the north-western exedra .................... 100 Fig. 4 Plan of the Forum Augustum by Palladio ......................... 101 Fig. 5 Plan of the Forum Augustum after the recent excavations ..................................................................... 109 Fig. 6 City gate of Perge ......................................................... 110 Fig. 7 Columns of the Temple of Mars Ultor with the stairs leading from Subura into the Forum ............................ 125 ggeeiiggeerr__ff11__vv--xxii..iinndddd vviiii 66//1100//22000088 44::0011::5522 PPMM ggeeiiggeerr__ff11__vv--xxii..iinndddd vviiiiii 66//1100//22000088 44::0011::5522 PPMM PREFACE The casual visitor at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, on grounds that are now part of Bronx Community College, will fi nd a rather neglected colonnade housing a hundred or so bronze busts bearing the names of those entitled to bear that proud designation. Conceived by Dr Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor of New York University (University Heights was then the campus of NYU) from 1891 to 1910, and dedicated in 1901, its strict constitution, true to the style of the Founding Fathers, lays down the different categories and walks of life from which the Great Americans are to be chosen—authors, educators, architects, inventors, military leaders, judges, theologians, philanthro- pists, humanitarians, scientists, statesmen, artists, musicians, actors and explorers—together with the exact manner of their selection. Other countries created their own commemorations of their distinguished dead according to their own traditions and national character—without necessarily going to such lengths as a Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (Novi, Michigan)—so that the very idea seems hardly to be questioned nowadays. All the more is it of some importance to enquire how the very fi rst compilation of this kind, the gallery of statues in the new Forum built by Augustus over 2,000 years ago, came into being. Though he did not outright monopolise commemoration, the Princeps nationalised it. The conception and preparation of this book was far longer than may be justifi ed by its length. My earlier work—to which I admit I refer not sparingly—bears witness to the long interest and also to the crystallisation of the ideas presented here. I was daring enough to add to the already vast number of books published on the age of Augustus in the belief that the questions discussed here are devoid neither of novelty nor of signifi cance. During that long time I incurred a very great number of debts. I must admit shamefacedly that most of these I cannot mention: in a lifetime of scholarship and endless encounters with teachers, colleagues and pupils I fi nd it impossible to trace every idea, formulation or refer- ence to its source. I can only sincerely hope that I have not committed serious injuries. Luckily, some debts are so great and so recent that it is impossible not to recall them constantly. Despite many obligations ggeeiiggeerr__ff11__vv--xxii..iinndddd iixx 66//1100//22000088 44::0011::5522 PPMM