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—The Bloomsbury Review

this book is invaluable to anyone who wants to learn more about the art of sculpture

and has lectured all over the world

Sylvie Aubenas

The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry oversized occupied a pivotal place betweenPeter Heslin In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholarship makes the precise and detailed argument that painted illustrations of the Trojan War, both public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected works of Virgil, Horace, and