Retromania!

Today my colleague here at the NIAS, Mitja Velikonja, lent me a new book by Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past.  Its first footnote (really a marginal comment at the bottom of the page -- the NIAS' writer-in-residence has alerted me to the nuances here) is making me wonder if I could write something similar about Augustan culture, circa the year zero (a great title, by the way).   Here's the marginal comment, with my rewrite below:

THE RETROSCAPE
2000/April: The Smithsonian Institution's Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum opens >>>> 2000/May: Julien Temple's Sex Pistols doc The Film and the Fury is released, kicking off a decade-spanning trilogy of punk documentaries... >>>> 2000/June: The Experience Music Project, a huge rock 'n' pop museum founded by billionaire infotech mogul Paul Allen, opens in Seattle >>>>> 2001/July: Garage-rock revivalists The White Stripes release their commercial breakthrough album White Blood Cells to huge acclaim >>>>  etc etc
The note runs along the bottom of the book's first fifteen pages.  

So:
THE RETROSCAPE:
39/April (let me make up the months): Gaius Asinius Pollio's Great Writers of the Past public library opens >>>>> 37/October: Vergil's ten Eclogues, adaptations of Theocritus' third century Bucolica are released, kicking off a short-term fashion of ten-poem poetry collections and a longer trend in bucolic songs... >>>>> 24/May: The Experience Hellenistic-Persian Gardens Project, a huge music 'n' art complex founded by billionaire banker Maecenas, opens in Rome >>>>>>  23/November: Lyric-elegy revivalist Horace releases his commercial breakthrough collection Odes to huge acclaim >>>>>> etc etc
Classicist readers may supply their own notes on Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Valerius Maximus, Livy (perhaps the Retromaniac par excellence) and others as they please.