Ara Pacis

shrine, Rome, Italy
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Also known as: Altar of the Augustan Peace, Ara Pacis Augustae
Also called:
Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin: “Altar of the Augustan Peace”)

Ara Pacis, shrine consisting of a marble altar in a walled enclosure erected in Rome’s Campus Martius (Field of Mars) in honour of the emperor Augustus and dedicated on Jan. 30, 9 bce. The dedication was recorded in Ovid’s Fasti as well as by Augustus himself in his “Res Gestae Divi Augusti” (“Achievements of the Divine Augustus”). The structure was commissioned in 13 bce to commemorate Augustus’s return from the provinces of Gaul, where he had spent three years supervising the administration of the region. The Senate proposed building the altar in the Curia, but Augustus decided to place the ...(100 of 282 words)