Analysis of Ovid's description of the Porticus Liviae

What is it about?

The porticus Liviae becomes, in Ovid's words, an evidence of Augustan inconsistencies about luxury: on one side, he blames private luxury and praises public magnificence; on the other, the obundaries between public and private are blurred, and he himself crosses them in many ways. A survey on the kewords in the passage from the Fasti about this monument is interesting at this regard. The paper mathces the archaeological analysis of the remains of the porticus and of the villa which had been destoryed in order to build it.

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Why is it important?

This paper offers two matching perspectives, the literary and the archaeological one.