ARTH 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Villa Farnesina, Livias, Attalid Dynasty
6 Feb 2017
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Means sealed earth and may refer to the use of stamps to decorated it. Stucco ceiling decoration, villa farnesina c. 20 bce. Augustus looked back to the golden age of. The great altar of zeus at pergamon. The altar of pergamon, symbol of attalid power in the east. Battle between the gods and the giants. How they became the gods of greece. Attalid"s are successors of alexander the great. Almost like statues even though they are relief. Sebasteion (augusteum cult place of the emperor as hero. Panels on it showing the julio-claudian family. Showing gods with the family of augustus. Very roman thing in a greek world. Earth (fertility of the earth) holding a cornucopia. Other side goddess of the sea handing him a rutter. Telling the east they have peace because of augustus. Scenes like this often seen in tombs. Tiberius wanted to show that they were better than the guals.
