Bimillennium 🆓

The bimillennium of Augustus’ death on August 19, 2014, provided a global platform for evaluating his posthumous significance.

Contemporary readings of Ovid's exile poetry have shifted to look at the "disfiguration" of his career—a "real and abominable" event that tore his life apart, rather than just a literary trope. bimillennium

While Augustus represents the political architect of the era, the bimillennium of the poet Ovid focused on the endurance of his literary "transfiguration". The bimillennium of Augustus’ death on August 19,

Investigations during this period highlighted how Augustus was often "Christianized" in later legends, such as the report of an oracle prefiguring the birth of Christ, which eventually linked him to the foundation of the Santa Maria in Aracoeli . The Ovidian Bimillennium (2017) bimillennium