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Programs like Commemorating Augustus aimed to help educators find "new practical tips" for teaching his complex history in schools.
Investigations during this period highlighted how Augustus was often "Christianized" in later legends, such as the report of an oracle prefiguring the birth of Christ, which eventually linked him to the foundation of the Santa Maria in Aracoeli . The Ovidian Bimillennium (2017)
The Bimillennium: Echoes of the Augustan Age in the 21st Century Introduction bimillennium
The 2,000th anniversary of Ovid's death saw the first professional meeting in China dedicated to the poet, titled "Globalizing Ovid," which explored his influence on 18th-century Chinese porcelain.
The bimillennium of Ovid’s Fasti (a calendar poem) was celebrated by scholars like Geraldine Herbert-Brown, who noted that while the exact date of the poem’s "anniversary" is debatable, the bimillennial volume served as a critical "timely" update to Ovidian studies. The "Bimillennium Vergilianum" (1930) Programs like Commemorating Augustus aimed to help educators
Earlier in the 20th century, the "Bimillennium Vergilianum" (the 2,000th anniversary of Virgil’s birth in 1930) set the precedent for these celebrations.
The bimillennium of Augustus’ death on August 19, 2014, provided a global platform for evaluating his posthumous significance. The bimillennium of Ovid’s Fasti (a calendar poem)
While Augustus represents the political architect of the era, the bimillennium of the poet Ovid focused on the endurance of his literary "transfiguration".
