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• W1973674561 abstract "Reviewed by: The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Augustum Barbara Kellum Joseph Geiger . The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Augustum. Mnemosyne Supplements 295. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xi + 225 pp. 7 figs. Cloth, $154.00. The preface of this volume begins quite hauntingly in the deserted colonnade of the early twentieth-century Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College, which houses bronze busts commemorating educators, authors, artists, scientists, and the like (ix). Indeed, the idea of considering the summi viri of the Forum of Augustus as a hall of fame has much to recommend it, although this serves just as an initial framing device for an interpretation that is only hinted at in chapter 1, the introduction, but one which the author promises will enable some valuable insights into the choices of heroes and their display in the Forum (6). For Geiger, these are Augustus' choice of heroes, this was the Republican Hall of Fame (2), and it was given to the Roman People for their use and their edification (8). In chapter 2, The Greek Background, Geiger posits the victor statues at Olympia as one group of antecedents, especially since the inscriptions are in the nominative as are those at the Forum of Augustus. He rails against the fact that these have apparently [been] totally neglected in discussions of Augustan epigraphy (17) but does not acknowledge that early Latin elogia, which are also in the nominative, have long been recognized as an Augustan source. Geiger does concede in a footnote that neither Augustus nor Agrippa are known to have visited Olympia (16, n. 16), so this may, at best, be an indirect influence. Geiger claims that the idea of setting up groups of statues of successful statesmen and generals apparently never occurred to Greeks in the Classical Age (23), but this is to overlook those fifth-century B.C.E. victory monuments at the start of the Sacred Way in Delphi: the Spartan monument for their victory at Aegospotami with its bronzes of Lysander and his admirals, and the two Argive exedrae on either side of the road with the Seven against Thebes and the seven Epigoni in one exedra and kings and heroes in the other (Pausanias 10.9.9–10.5). Chapter 3, The Roman Background, treats family imagines, honorific statues, and funerary orations briefly (25–34) before turning to the development in the late Republic of books devoted to historical figures. It is these works by Varro, Nepos, and Atticus, which, according to Geiger, had far greater effect [End Page 632] on the mind of Augustus than any other source (34). It is especially Varro's de Imaginibus or Hebdomades, with its 700 portraits and accompanying short texts arranged in groups of seven or multiples of seven, including Greek poets and philosophers, and Roman generals and statesmen, that he finds significant (44). Among the categories not expressly attested as being included in Varro, Geiger suggests the seven kings of Rome and fourteen Alban kings (not the seven Alban kings he himself had put forward before, 44–45; on his earlier view, 45, n. 71) were there. Moreover, Geiger urges that, with seven-hundred slots to fill, another likely feature of Varro's work was the inclusion of hebdomads of women, citing the work of Charon of Carthage as precedent (45–46). However, as the author admits in the footnote, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker lists Charon of Carthage, known only from the lexicon of Suidas, as an author of the second or third century C.E., not the Hellenistic figure Geiger believes him to be (46, n. 76), so the one possible precedent is in itself questionable. Chapter 4 focuses on the Forum of Augustus itself and what, as Geiger envisions it, was an educational programme of national instruction in history (78). As far as he is concerned, the choice of heroes was far more important than the exact wording of the inscriptions, and the lack of conformity in the elogia make overall authorship unlikely (92). It is Varro's imagines, however, that are..." @default.
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• W1973674561 title "<i>The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Augustum</i> (review)" @default.
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