Hadrian's Pantheon:
M. Agrippa L. F. Cos. Tertium Fecit

New = Bad
o res novae ("new things") = revolution
o novus homo ("new man")

mos maiorum (= "ancestral ways")
 
 

Good	Bad
agriculture	business
small family farm	latifundia
simplicity	luxury
Roman (Latin)	Greek
old-time religion	exotic cults
patria potestas	wild youth

Key concepts
o pietas
o fides
o gravitas
o virtus (< vir = "man")

Tradition & The Family

Conservatism of nomenclature

Aristocratic Funerals

Effect on Individuals
o Cato the Elder -> Cato the Younger
o L. Junius Brutus -> M. Junius Brutus

Visible Tradition

Buildings & Monuments
o Temples, inscriptions etc. in Forum area
o Rostra
o Casa Romuli
o Lapis Niger ("Black Stone")

Tombs

Rituals & ceremonies (e.g. Triumph)

Tradition & History

Emblematic stories (exempla)

I invite the reader's attention to ... consideration of the kind of lives our ancestors lived ...; in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid. (Livy, preface)

o Curtius
o Mucius Scaevola
o Regulus
o Cincinnatus
o Brutus & his sons

o Lucretia

Contamination of Past & Present
o Spurius Maelius & Ahala <<< Gracchi
o Romulus <<< Assassination of Caesar
 >>> Deification of Augustus

Ideal vs. Reality

Double-think
o Sallust on Roman decadence
o Seneca on Scipio's villa
o Cato the Elder, On Agriculture
o M. Brutus & the Salaminians

Discreet adaptation
o Expansion of pomerium
o Change in fetial rite
o Flamen Dialis under Augustus

Fossilization
o Comitia centuriata
o Augustan political reforms