The Pantheon of Rome as a marker of identity

by Demi Storm

Abstract

This paper studies identity and cultural memory in antiquity. Placement, a mythical origin story, and architecture are all pillars of identity. Based on the case study of the Pantheon in Rome, it will become clear how the Pantheon functioned as a marker in the identity-building of the Roman emperor Augustus. The Pantheon was part of the legitimization of power of the emperor of the Roman Empire, searching for and creating a continuation of an idealized past.

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The Pantheon in Rome as a marker of identity

One of the best-preserved buildings from Roman antiquity is the Pantheon on the Campus Martius in Rome. For many this building exemplifies one of the greatest architectural achievements of antiquity, and the building may even be perceived as an idealized version of classical antiquity. Throughout history, we see all sorts of people being drawn to this building – from emperors to popes, from artists to tourists.^[1] Therefore, this article will elaborate on some of the history of the building using the concepts of identity and cultural memory. By looking at the Pantheon during the reign of emperor Augustus, it will become clear how the building was used in the image and identity formation of the emperor. However, before diving into this case study is it worth discussing the concepts of identity and cultural memory.

Identity is who you claim to be

A big part of modern scholarship focuses on questions concerning identity. This is not only embedded in scholarship; it is something embedded in human nature. We try to identify and define ourselves and the people around us. We – you, me, everyone – have different social identities that can exist simultaneously.^[2] To clarify this, in the process of writing this article, I am a historian, a writer, but I am also a daughter, a sister, a friend, I am Dutch, I am a citizen of the world, and so on. Depending on the context we can choose to highlight one part of our identity more than the other. This is not a modern phenomenon. Throughout history choosing to highlight certain parts of your identity could be beneficial. This process of choosing identity is called code-switching in modern scholarship.^[3]

            As said, we try to identify and define ourselves and the people around us. One way of doing this is by differentiating ‘us’ from ‘them’ in the case of ‘groups’ of individuals. Sharing something is important when talking about identity because sharing certain characteristics makes us feel connected to each other. What characteristics do we share that makes us a group? What characteristics do they share that makes them another different group? These are delicate questions, and not always easy to answer. First of all, one cannot simply label people. Secondly, identity was not always chosen but could also be given. This is best visible in administrative cases. Thirdly, most of the time there is no unified definition. Josephine Crawley Quinn elaborates on this in her study In search of the Phoenicians. Quinn uses Greek and Roman literary sources in search for characteristic of the Phoeniciana and she argues that they are not an ethnic group,^[1] as there is no proper definition in the sources. They are a Greek and Roman literary construct and do not exist. The Phoenicians, however, had a shared language, which meant that they could transmit shared stories, myths, and so on.^[2] A shared language is thus an important factor in sharing an identity, but not the only one, which will be clarified in the case of the Pantheon.

Memory and Remembering

The history of the study of memory and remembering is extensive, starting with the research of Maurice Halbwachs (1877 – 1945), who coined the term mémoire collective. These are individual memories that come together at a central point, creating a shared memory. According to Halbwachs, memory was thus dependent on social structures.^[1] Astrid Erll adds to this that « […] fundamental for Halbwachs, however, is the fact that it is through interaction and communication with our fellow humans that we acquire knowledge about dates and facts, collective concepts of time and space, and ways of thinking and experiencing. »^[2]

Following the ideas of Halbwachs is Pierre Nora (1931 – ) with his concept of lieux de mémoire.^[3] Nora shifts the focus to the actual sites of memory because of the absence of the living memory. He states: « Lieux de mémoire originate with the sense that there is no spontaneous memory, that we must deliberately create archives, maintain anniversaries, organize celebrations, pronounce eulogies, and notarize bills because such activities no longer occur naturally. »^[4] This had a big impact in the study of memory and remembering.

In the 1980s Jan (1938 – ) and Aleida Assmann (1947 – ) introduced the concepts communicative^[5] and cultural memory, also based on the studies of Halbwachs.^[6] The practice of remembering and forgetting is something that can be traced back to ancient societies.^[7] For the Assmanns « cultural memory transports a fixed set of contents and meanings, which are maintained and interpreted by trained specialists. At its core are mythical events of a distant past which are interpreted as foundational to the community. »^[8]

Cultural memory, however, is not as fixed and static as the Assmanns describe it. The mythical events that are at its core change through time and place. For example, the apotheosis of Romulus should have taken place in the eight century BCE and Livy’s account of this event was written down at the end of the first century BCE. There are thus centuries between the event and the description of Livy, and in these centuries the mythical story had been transmitted through many people, which makes it susceptible to change. People are likely to pick the aspects that are most interesting and important to them.

At this point, identity and cultural memory meet each other. Mythical events, past rulers, and ancestors, to mention just a few, functioned well in the search for shared characteristics because various aspects could be highlighted as “good” or “bad” and thus legitimized certain actions or actors. Therefore, the choices that were made, suggested or even created a sense of stability, a sense of sharing, and these choices could change over time.

The Pantheon in Rome

In either 27 or 25 a Pantheon on the Campus Martius was completed and dedicated by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, close friend and son-in-law of emperor Augustus.^[9] To call this building ‘a Pantheon’ is a deliberate choice because the present building is a different Pantheon than the one that was built during the reign of Augustus (r. 27 BCE – 14 CE). Until the end of the nineteenth century Agrippa’s patronage of the present Pantheon was believed and widely accepted in the scholarly research,^[10] predominantly because of the inscription on the architrave, which reads: « M(arcus) AGRIPPA L(ucii) F(ilius) CO(n)S(ul) TERTIUM FECIT. »^[11]

A revision of the dating of the Pantheon was brought by the French architect Georges Chédanne. He studied the brickstamps that belong to the Pantheon. Based on the stamps that were found, he was able to date the present structure to the reign of emperor Hadrian (r. 117 – 138 CE). Other scholars who also studied these Roman brickstamps, like Heinrich Dressel and Herbert Bloch, followed Chédanne and his findings, and the Hadrianic date of the Pantheon has been the consensus ever since.^[12]

However, the debate on the dating of the Pantheon remains alive. Lise M. Hetfield, who studied the same brickstamps, shows that the building of the Pantheon had already begun before the reign of Hadrian. The bricks date to the end of the reign of emperor Trajan (r. 98 – 117).^[13] Furthermore, the present Pantheon has similarities to other Trajanic buildings.^[14] It is therefore likely, she argues, that the building of the present Pantheon started during the reign of Trajan, sometime after its destruction by lightning in 110 CE, and that it was completed during the reign of his successor Hadrian; more than a century later than the reign of Augustus.^[15]

            The Italian archaeologist Eugenio La Rocca states that there is little known about Agrippa’s Pantheon and that what we do know derives from the work of Cassius Dio (ca. 150 – 235 CE).^[16] In his Roman History he writes as follows:

« Ἀγρίππας δὲ ἐν τούτῳ τὸ ἄστυ τοῖς ἰδίοις τέλεσιν ἐπεκόσμησε. […] τό τε Πάνθειον ὠνομασμένον ἐξετέλεσε· προσαγορεύεται δὲ οὕτω τάχα μὲν ὅτι πολλῶν θεῶν εἰκόνας ἐν τοῖς ἀγάλμασι, τῷ τε τοῦ Ἄρεως καὶ τῷ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, ἔλαβεν, ὡς δὲ ἐγὼ νομίζω, ὅτι θολοειδὲς ὂν τῷ οὐρανῷ προσέοικεν. ἠβουλήθη μὲν οὖν ὁ Ἀγρίππας καὶ τὸν Αὔγουστον ἐνταῦθα ἱδρῦσαι, τήν τε τοῦ ἔργου ἐπίκλησιν αὐτῷ δοῦναι· μὴ δεξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ μηδέτερον ἐκεῖ μὲν τοῦ προτέρου Καίσαρος, ἐν δὲ τῷ προνάῳ τοῦ τε Αὐγούστου καὶ ἑαυτοῦ ἀνδριάντας ἔστησε. καὶ ἐγίγνετο γὰρ ταῦτα οὐκ ἐξ ἀντιπάλου τῷ Ἀγρίππᾳ πρὸς τὸν Αὔγουστον φιλοτιμίας, ἀλλ᾿ ἔκ τε τῆς πρὸς ἐκεῖνον λιπαροῦς εὐνοίας καὶ ἐκ τῆς πρὸς τὸ δημόσιον ἐνδελεχοῦς σπουδῆς, οὐ μόνον οὐδὲν αὐτὸν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς ὁ Αὔγουστος ᾐτιάσατο, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐτίμησε . »^[17]

Dio wrote this passage right after he stated that Augustus had closed the precinct of Janus because of his fortunus victories at war.^[18] He did not only emphasize the good deeds of the emperor, but also those of Agrippa by explicitly mentioning that he had beautified the city of Rome at his own expenses. Furthermore, Dio highlighted the humbleness of the emperor by explaining that he would not accept a statue of himself in the building nor that the building would be named after him. This fits the idea that the work of Dio served a political agenda, in which he created his idealized form of Roman government.^[19]

Building on that idea, Alain M. Gowing analysed how Dio used monuments and buildings in his work. According to Gowing, Dio only focused on them as symbols of power or the abuse of power. Otherwise, he was not interested in them.^[20] Thus, Dio was aware that building programmes were used as a form of self-promotion of the Roman elite. Gowing also states that Dio frequently remarked on the generosity and modesty of Augustus, who was responsible for the restoration and construction of many buildings in Rome, and that Agrippa was also praised for his contributions to the city and for not using the buildings he was responsible for as a way of self-promotion.^[21]

           In scholarly research there is a lot of debate about the name of the Pantheon and its function, specifically in its early stages.^[22] Cassius Dio, interestingly, also wrote about the name of Agrippa’s Pantheon and shared his view. The name could be chosen because of the images in the building of many gods, including Mars and Venus, but to him, the vaulted roof resembled the heavens.^[23] Why is this remarkable? As has been said, Dio only wrote about buildings when they were relevant as symbols of the use and abuse of power. The Pantheon is situated on the Campus Martius, the place where Romulus’ apotheosis took place.^[24] Thus, the Campus Martius already had associations with the mythical origins of the city of Rome and its first king Romulus. In the modern scholarly debate, this link between Romulus and Augustus was first made by Filippo Coarelli. However, Adam Ziolkowski argues that this is based on speculations and that it is not supported by evidence because no cult connected with Romulus was placed on the Campus Martius.^[25]

Paul W. Jacobs II and Diane Atnally Conlin, on the other hand, state that the Campus Martius was a place of annual pilgrimage for the Romans. On the holiday Nonae Capratinae they went there, possibly to celebrate the apotheosis of Romulus.^[26] They argue that for centuries scholars have been looking to find intentional imperial symbolism in the structure of the Pantheon. By focussing on the oculus and the play of sunlight in the Hadrianic Pantheon, they imply that there is a basis for this because « at local noon on April 21, the suns’ rays entering the oculus strike the north-facing door. This occurrence on Rome’s birthday in a building sited in the area of Romulus’s apotheosis and on the same day that the sunrise is in line with the east entrance to the Ara Pacis raises huge possibilities for intentional imperial symbolism. »^[27]

           If we would focus on the concepts of identity and cultural memory it could be possible that there was a deliberate connection between the apotheosis of Romulus and Agrippa’s Pantheon. These concepts are particularly useful when we look at political legitimation of Roman emperors. In the case of Agrippa’s Pantheon, its placement and structure can be linked to a mythical and divine past.

If we look at Dio’s passage again, we see another element that links Augustus to a divine status, namely that Agrippa wished to place a statue of the emperor among the gods. However, the humble Augustus declines this honour. These are all examples of legitimizing the power of the emperor. Augustus was the one that closed the precinct of Janus, so there was no more war in his empire, he had many structures renovated and built, and in his politics, he reached back to his own idealized image of the mythical origins of the city and idealized version of the Republic. Within the renovation and building programme of the emperor, the idealized version of the Republic is also visible. Karl Galinsky calls this concept enhanced familiarity, and this is further explained by Daine Favro in her chapter on Rome during the reign of Augustus.^[28] They explain that, by using familiar architectural types, styles, and materials the emperor drew upon the strength of a long tradition to legitimize his position as emperor. These familiar structures created a feeling of reassurance and stability after a period of civil conflict.^[29] These familiar structures also created a sense of a shared history, a shared identity and this enhanced the legitimate rule of emperor Augustus.

Conclusion

The Pantheon in Rome functions thus as a beautiful example in the image and identity formation of emperor Augustus. This is not only the case during his rule, but also in the cases of later emperors, kings, and other rulers. However, that would be for another article. Through the concepts of identity and cultural memory it has become clear that the building was part of the legitimization of power of the emperor of the Roman Empire. In the Roman History of Cassius Dio can be read that the Pantheon was used as a symbol of power in a positive manner. The mythical origins of the city, which had been transmitted over centuries, play a part in the current scholarly debates concerning the Pantheon and have likely played a part in the contemporary decisions that were made when the Pantheons were built and restored. Augustus emphasized a continuity with his idealized version of a mythical and distant past by highlighting shared characteristics that he deemed important. A unified and stable empire was thus created through looking at the past and the rulers choosing the elements that were most suitable to propagate this, one of which was the Pantheon.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.26-27.

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 1.16.

Assmann J., Memory and Cultural Identity in « New German Critique », 1995, n. 65, pp. 125-133.

Assmann J., Cultural Memory: Script, Recollection, and Political Identity in Early Civilizations in « Historiography East and West », Leiden, 2003, 1:2 pp. 154-177.

Broucke P., The first Pantheon: Architecture and Meaning (abstract) in Graßhoff G., Heinzelmann M., and Wäfler M., (eds.), The Pantheon in Rome. Contributions., Bern, 2009, pp. 27-28.

Coarelli F., Rome and Environs : an Archaeological Guide, University of California, 2007.

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Erll A., The Invention of Cultural Memory: A Short History of Memory Studies in Erll A., Memory in Culture, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, 2011, pp. 13-37.

Favro D., Making Rome a World City in Galinsky K., (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 234-263.

Gowing A.M., Cassius Dio and the City of Rome in Majbom Madsen J., and Hjort Lange C., (eds.), « Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician », Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, pp. 117-135.

Hetland L.M., Dating the Pantheon in « Journal of Roman Archaeology vol. XX », Cambridge University Press, 2007, n. 1, pp. 95-112.

Jacobs II P.W., and Conlin, D.A., Campus Martius. The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Knell H., Das Pantheon in Rom und die Sprache seiner architektur in Graßhoff G., Heinzelmann M., and Wäfler M., (eds.), The Pantheon in Rome. Contributions., Bern, 2009, pp. 11-26.

Lange C. H., and Majbom Madsen J., Between History and Politics in Majbom Madsen J., and Hjort Lange C., (eds.), « Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician », Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, pp.  1-10.

La Rocca E., Agrippa’s Pantheon and its Origin in Marder T.A., and Wilson Jones M., (eds.) The Pantheon in Rome. From Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 49-78.

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Thomas, E., The Cult Statues of the Pantheon in « The Journal of Roman Studies vol. 107 », 2017, pp. 146-212.

Ziolkowski A., What did Agrippa’s Pantheon look like? New answers to and Old Question in Graßhoff G., Heinzelmann M., and Wäfler M., (eds.), The Pantheon in Rome. Contributions., Bern, 2009, pp. 29-41.

NOTES:

¹ What becomes clear in the introductory chapter by Tod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones is that throughout history many people have been interested in the Pantheon, from Roman and Byzantine emperors to the pope, the Bernini family, artists like Raphael and rulers like Victor Emmanuel II and Benito Mussolini. See for a full overview: Marder T.A., and Wilson Jones M., ‘Introduction’ in Marder T.A., and Wilson Jones M., (eds.) The Pantheon in Rome. From Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 1-48.

² Morgan T., Society, Identity, and Ethnicity in the Hellenic World in Hockey K.M., and Horrell D.G., (eds.), Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation, T&T Clark, 2018, pp. 23-45, cit., p. 23-24.

³ Ibidem, cit., p. 34-38.

⁴ Ethnicity is a modern construct with its roots in the nineteenth century. The modern definition states that it is a particular race of people. This modern definition is different from the ancient ideas on the matter. There is no proper definition for the Greek term ἔθνος. The Greeks themselves could not define it, which means that we are in no state to define the ancient meaning. The word is constantly under construction; important factors are a shared history, language, and shared territory. For more, see: T. Morgan, Society, Identity, and Ethnicity in the Hellenic World cit., p. 23-45.

⁵ Crawley Quinn J., In Search of the Phoenicians, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017, cit., p. 44-62.

⁶ Erll A., The Invention of Cultural Memory: A Short History of Memory Studies in Erll A., Memory in Culture, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, 2011, pp. 13-37, cit., p. 14-18; Assmann J., Cultural Memory: Script, Recollection, and Political Identity in Early Civilizations in « Historiography East and West », Leiden, 2003, 1:2 pp. 154-177, cit., p.  163-166.

⁷ Erll, The Invention of Cultural Memory, cit., p. 15.

⁸ Ibidem, cit., p. 22-27.

⁹ Nora P., Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire in « Representations. Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory », University of California Press,1989, n. 26, pp. 7-24, cit., p. 12.

¹⁰ Communicative memory will not be discussed further in this paper because it is not applicable in this situation. It is part of “lived memory” and that concept is difficult to use when one is discussing ancient societies. See: Assmann J., Memory and Cultural Identity in « New German Critique », 1995, n. 65, pp. 125-133, cit., p. 126-127; Erll, The Invention of Cultural Memory, cit., p. 28-33.

¹¹ Assmann, Cultural Memory, cit., p. 155; Erll, The Invention of Cultural Memory, cit., p. 27-37.

¹² Assmann, Cultural Memory, cit., p. 157-162.

¹³ Erll, The Invention of Cultural Memory, cit., p. 28.

¹⁴ La Rocca E., Agrippa’s Pantheon and its Origin in Marder T.A., and Wilson Jones M., (eds.) The Pantheon in Rome. From Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 49-78, cit., p. 50-51; Coarelli F., Rome and Environs : an Archaeological Guide, University of California, 2007, cit., p. 286; Jacobs II P.W., and Conlin, D.A., Campus Martius. The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome, Cambridge University Press, 2014, cit., p. 12-13.

¹⁵ Marder and Wilson Jones, Introduction, cit., p. 7.

¹⁶ The inscription is often translated as ‘Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, had this built when he was consul for the third time.’ However, it can also be translated as ‘Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, who had been consul three times, had this built.’ This second translation needs to be taken into consideration because it is more in accordance with the consulate of Agrippa in 37, 28, and 27, and the passage in Cassius Dio’s Roman History 53.27.2 in which he dates the completion of the Pantheon by Agrippa in 25.

¹⁷ Marder and Wilson Jones, Introduction, cit., p. 7; Hetland L.M., Dating the Pantheon in « Journal of Roman Archaeology vol. XX », Cambridge University Press, 2007, n. 1, pp. 95-112, cit., p. 97-98.

¹⁸ Hetland, Dating the Pantheon, cit., p. 98-110.

¹⁹ Ibidem, cit., p. 110-111.

²⁰ Marder and Wilson Jones, Introduction, cit., p. 7-8; Hetland, Dating the Pantheon, cit., p. 95-96, p. 110-111; Broucke P., The first Pantheon: Architecture and Meaning (abstract) in Graßhoff G., Heinzelmann M., and Wäfler M., (eds.), The Pantheon in Rome. Contributions., Bern, 2009, pp. 27-28, cit., p. 27; Knell H., Das Pantheon in Rom und die Sprache seiner architektur in Graßhoff G., Heinzelmann M., and Wäfler M., (eds.), The Pantheon in Rome. Contributions., Bern, 2009, pp. 11-26, cit., p. 12.

²¹ La Rocca, Agrippa’s Pantheon and its Origin, cit., p. 51-52.

²² Translation by Earnest Cary: “Meanwhile Agrippa beautified the city at his own expense. […] Also he completed the building called the Pantheon. It has this name, perhaps because it received among the images which decorated it the statues of many gods, including Mars and Venus; but my own opinion of the name is that, because of its vaulted roof, it resembles the heavens. Agrippa, for his part, wished to place a statue of Augustus there also and to bestow upon him the honour of having the structure named after him; but when the emperor would not accept either honour, he placed in the temple itself a statue of the former Caesar and in the ante-room statues of Augustus and himself. This was done, not out of any rivalry or ambition on Agrippa’s part to make himself equal to Augustus, but from his hearty loyalty to him and his constant zeal for the public good; hence Augustus, so far from censuring him for it, honoured him the more.” Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.27.1-4.

²³ Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.26.5.

²⁴ Lange C. H., and Majbom Madsen J., Between History and Politics in Majbom Madsen J., and Hjort Lange C., (eds.), « Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician », Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, pp.  1-10, cit., p. 2.

²⁵ Gowing A.M., Cassius Dio and the City of Rome in Majbom Madsen J., and Hjort Lange C., (eds.), « Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician », Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, pp. 117-135, cit., p. 127; Lange and Madsen, Between History and Politics, cit., p. 6-7.

²⁶ Ibidem, cit., p. 128.

²⁷ Marder and Wilson Jones, Introduction, cit., p. 4-5; Knell, Das Pantheon in Rom und die Sprache seiner architektur, cit., p. 12; La Rocca, Agrippa’s Pantheon and its Origin, cit., p. 50-53; Jacobs II and Conlin, Campus Martius cit., p. 142-143; Ziolkowski A., What did Agrippa’s Pantheon look like? New answers to and Old Question in Graßhoff G., Heinzelmann M., and Wäfler M., (eds.), The Pantheon in Rome. Contributions., Bern, 2009, pp. 29-41, cit., p. 36-39.

²⁸ Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.27.2; Scheithauer A., Kaiserliche Bautätigkeit in Rom. Das Echo in der antiken Literatur, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgard, 2000, cit., p. 80-81, p. 168.

²⁹ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 1.16.

³⁰ Ziolkowski, What did Agrippa’s Pantheon look like? cit., p. 37; Thomas, E., The Cult Statues of the Pantheon in « The Journal of Roman Studies vol. 107 », 2017, pp. 146-212, cit., p. 181-182.

³¹ Jacobs II and Conlin, Campus Martius cit., p. 20.

³² Ibidem, cit., p. 155-157.

³³ Favro D., Making Rome a World City in Galinsky K., (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 234-263, cit., p. 248-262.

³⁴ Ibidem, cit., p. 248-249.

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