10 Contesting Time and Space:Fasti6. 637–48

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Abstract This chapter reads in the anecdote of Vedius Pollio’s house (F. 6. 637-48) four overlapping themes: an appropriate conclusion to a day that begins in pre-Roman Italy, moves to the regal period, and ends in the Augustan present; a dramatic reification of Augustus’ attempt to give June 11 new meaning as a day honouring his wife and imperial family; the beginning of a moralizing tradition of the harmfulness of luxury and true authority of fine leadership, evident later in Dio and Seneca; and a shifting resignification of the site from the palace of Servius Tullius to Vedius’ Pollio’s house to Livia’s Porticus, vivid illustration of the way in which Augustus redrew the map of Rome.

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