Culture Hero Flashcards
Res Gestae 6 quote (Magistracies)
“I received no magistracies that were not in keeping with the customs of our ancestors.”
Res Gestae 7 quote (Also for Augustus)
“I was pontifex maximus, augur..”
Res Gestae 8 quote (Also for Pater Patriae)
“I brought back many examples of ancestral practices … and I myself handed on many exemplary practices..”
Res Gestae 12 quote (Altar of Augustan Peace)
”..the senate voted to consecrate an Altar of Augustan Peace for my return, in the field of Mars..”
Res Gestae 20 quote (Also for Augustus)
“In my sixth consulship I restored eighty two temples..”
Res Gestae 22 quote (Secular Games)
”..I celebrated the Secular Games, with my colleague Marcus Agrippa..”
Res Gestae 23 quote (Also for Imperator)
“I gave a naval battle show for the people across the Tiber..”
Res Gestae 29 quote (Also for Imperator and Divi F.)
“I compelled the Parthians to return to me the spoils of three Roman armies … I deposited these standards in the inner shrine of the temple of Mars the Avenger.”
Suetonius 28 quote (Brick/marble)
”..he could rightly boast that what he had found as brick he left as marble.”
Suetonius 29 quote (Ultor and Apollo)
“He carried out an extensive program of public works … his Forum with its Temple of Mars the Avenger (started 20 BC, dedicated 2 BC) … the Palatine Temple of Apollo (dedicated 28 BC)..”
Suetonius 29 quote (Agrippa)
”..and a variety of magnificent edifices by Marcus Agrippa (including the original Pantheon in 27 BC).”
Suetonius 34 quote (Lex Iuliae)
“He both revised existing laws and enacted new ones … to encourage marriage and procreation..”
(The Lex Iuliae/Julia, 18 BC)
Suetonius 56 quote (Free speech)
”..[he] vetoed a law that would have suppressed freedom of speech..”
Horace Ode 3.6 quote (Sins of the Romans)
“Romans … you’ll still expiate your father’s sins, till you’ve restored the temples..”
Horace Ode 3.6 quote (Fertile in its wickedness)
“Our age, fertile in its wickedness, has first defiled the marriage bed..”
Horace Ode 3.6 quote (Punic wars)
“The young men who stained the Punic Sea with blood … were a virile crowd of rustic soldiers..”
Horace Ode 4.15 quote (Restored rich crops)
“Caesar, this age has restored rich crops … and brought back the standards at last..”
Horace Ode 4.4 quote (Wives and children)
”..with our wives and children we’ll pray … to the gods..”
(Family and religious traditions restored)
Horace Carmen Saeculare quote (The Senate’s decrees)
”..bring to fruition the Senate’s decrees concerning … the laws of marriage..”
Horace Carmen Saeculare quote (Moral values personified return)
“Now Faith and Peace, Honour, and ancient Modesty dare to return … with neglected Virtue..”
Horace Carmen Saeculare quote (Fruitful Earth)
“Let Earth that is fruitful in crops … adorn our Ceres with garlands of wheat-ears..”
(Image of plenty implies Saturnian golden age)
Ovid Metamorphoses quote (Direct morality)
“‘When the world is at peace … He will direct morality by his own example..’”
(Speech from Jupiter, reference to the Lex Iuliae/Julia)
Propertius Elegy 3.4 quote (Parthia)
”..Parthia’s trophies will get to know Latin Jupiter.”
Propertius Elegy 3.4 quote (Also for Imperator)
“And avenge that disaster of Crassus! Go and take care of Roman history!”
