| Five years later, he divided the city into new districts. And on every street corner, he built a shrine. In his meticulous way, he was altering the whole focus of Roman worship. Very few traces of these ancient shrines remain, but there's one in the Vatican Museum. It's tucked away from public view in the Pope's own private gallery. And its carvings show just how the shrewd Augustus was shifting the object of Roman worship from the gods to himself and his own family. So, what are the images on it? And Augustus's family connection to the gods is even more explicit in another scene. What did Augustus want the people who saw this shrine to believe? By putting images of his deified ancestors on shrines all over Rome and encouraging sacrifices to them, Augustus was making a bold statement. Augustus was inviting all ordinary Romans to take part in the creation of a new imperial mythology. The city of Rome was being indelibly stamped with the divine claims of one family, one ruler. |
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