Readİng the mausoleum of augustus İn rome

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Ödengiz Başak, Meral

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This thesis focuses on the Mausoleum of the first Roman Emperor Augustus in Rome. It studies the Mausoleum as a Roman monument highly laden with symbolic meanings and functions. Built at the age of transition from Republic to Empire, the symbolic meanings and functions of the Mausoleum evolved and expanded within time. The thesis exposes and highlights the formation, evolution and expansion of the symbolic meanings and functions of the Mausoleum in parallel to the transformation of the Roman Republic to the Empire during the Augustan period.

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Mausoleums., Augustus, Mausoleum, Augustan Rome, Funerary Architecture, Monument.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45203

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M. Ödengiz Başak, “Readİng the mausoleum of augustus İn rome,” Thesis (M.A.) -- Graduate School of Social Sciences. History of Architecture., Middle East Technical University, 2020.