Undoing the consensus: subaltern logic on the altars of the Lares Augusti

Authors

  • Giovanni Pando Bueno Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v11i2p161-186

Keywords:

Altars, Magistri, Lares Augusti, Subalternity

Abstract

Among the religious reforms promoted by Augustus during his Principate (27 B.C. - AD 14) was the cult of Lares compitales, practiced at crossroads by the initiative of magistri vici (mostly freed persons), which became Lares Augusti. This change was seen as proof of the recognition shown by the subaltern classes to the new Princeps of Rome and to the hegemonic ideology of the Augustan Age, characterized as a period of general consensus. In this article, through the iconographic analysis of two altars of the new cult, we will investigate the historical agency of the magistri and the mobilization of the images and materiality of the altars to express their own interests.

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Author Biography

  • Giovanni Pando Bueno, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

    Mestrando do Programa de História Social da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH – USP), sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Marcelo Rede. Bolsista FAPESP (processo n°: 2020/03091-0).

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Published

2020-12-08

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2020)

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Undoing the consensus: subaltern logic on the altars of the Lares Augusti. (2020). Mare Nostrum, 11(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v11i2p161-186

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