书名：The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry
定价：500.0
ISBN：9781606064214
作者：Heslin
版次：1
出版时间：2015-01

内容提要：

书名：The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry

作者：Peter Heslin

出版：Getty Publications，2015

装帧：精装，352页

语种：英文

开本：17.8*25.4cm

古罗马诗人贺拉斯在《颂歌》中提到自己的作品时写道：“我建造了一座比青铜更不朽的纪念碑”。这是一个惊人的隐喻，暗示了古罗马的诗歌与视觉建筑环境之间密不可分的联系。

在本书中，作者对描述特洛伊战争的绘画作品进行了精确而详细地论证。所有绘画作品都为维吉尔、贺拉斯和普罗佩提乌斯的优秀诗歌提供了视觉化的资料。经过仔细研究和巧妙推理，作者提出大胆而创新的观点，深刻地解释了罗马视觉文化与文学之间的关系，这将更好地对奥古斯都时期的诗歌进行现代解读。

首先，奥古斯都博物馆对特洛伊古城遗址壁画的残余部分进行了复原，这些壁画曾被用来装饰庞贝的阿波罗神庙。接着，在奥古斯都时期的菲利普斯柱廊中找到了这类绘画的痕迹 (它们现已被摧毁)。这座柱廊本身就是对罗马的缪斯神庙的修复——换言之，它是一座博物馆，既展示艺术，又为诗人们提供一个聚会的场所。接下来，本书考查了奥古斯都时期的诗人对这座纪念碑的装饰方案的反应，以及该方案与他们自己的文学抱负密切相关。在本书的结尾，作者探讨了《颂歌》中的贺拉斯和《农事诗》中的维吉尔是如何将他们的诗歌概念转化成为一座神庙的，其壮阔可与奥古斯都博物馆相匹敌。

In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, “I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,”—a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholarship makes the precise and detailed argument that painted illustrations of the Trojan War, both public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius. Carefully researched and skillfully reasoned, the author’s claims are bold and innovative, offering a strong interpretation of the relationship between Roman visual culture and literature that will deepen modern readings of Augustan poets.

The Museum of Augustus first provides a comprehensive reconstruction of paintings from the remaining fragments of the cycle of Trojan frescoes that once decorated the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii. It then finds the echoes of these paintings in the Augustan-dated Portico of Philippus, now destroyed, which was itself a renovation of Rome’s de facto temple of the Muses—in other words, a museum, both in displaying art and offering a meeting place for poets. It next examines the responses of the Augustan poets to the decorative program of this monument that was intimately connected with their own literary aspirations. The book concludes by looking at the way Horace in the Odes and Virgil in the Georgics both conceptualized their poetic projects as temples to rival the museum of Augustus.