Casa di Augusto
In Casa di Augusto once stood the Domus Augusti on Rome’s Palatine Hill—identified as the main residence of Augustus (r. 27 BC–AD 14), after he moved there from a home near the Forum. Before Augustus held it, the property had been owned by the orator Quintus Hortensius, and it was bought around 41–40 BC—then directly beside the Apolline temple on the Palatine. A dramatic turn came soon after: the spot was struck by lightning, and Augustus declared the place public property. He dedicated a temple to Apollo Palatinus, linking it to Apollo’s help in his victory over Sextus Pompey in 36 BC. This pious act mattered politically too—an oak crown was said to have adorned the front door as a tribute in 27 BC, when the Senate decreed the area be given to Augustus from public funds. Architecturally, the house stayed deliberately restrained: peperino stone in its porticoes, and no marble veneers in its reception rooms. …
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