From republic to empire
Subtitle: rhetoric, religion, and power in the visual culture of ancient Rome
By: John Pollini
Edition: 1st
Series: Oklahoma series in classical culture -- v. 48
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780806142586
Subjects: Art; Visual communication; Roman Art; Art and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ritualizing Death in Republican Rome : Memory, Religion, Class Struggle, and the Wax Ancestral Mask Tradition's Origin and Influence on Veristic Portraiture; title: The Leader and the Divine : Official and Nonofficial Modes of Representation; title: Appendix: A Colossal Statue of Titus or Domitian and the Neokorate Temples of Ephesos; title: The Cult Statue of Julius Caesar and Heroic and Divine Imagery of Deified Leaders in the Late Republic and Early Principate; title: From Warrior to Statesman in Art and Ideology : Octavian/Augustus and the Image of Alexander the Great; title: Appendix: Triumphal Frieze of the Actian Victory Monument at Nikopolis; title: The Ideology of "Peace through Victory" and the Ara Pacis Augustae : Visual Rhetoric and the Creation of a Dynastic Narrative; title: Appendix A: The "Aeneas Panel" of the Ara Pacis; title: Appendix B: The Mausoleum of Augustus and Its Quadrigate Imagery; title: Appendix C: The Ustrinum Augusti; title: The Acanthus of the Ara Pacis as an Apolline and Dionysiac Symbol of Anamorphosis, Anakyklosis, and Numen Mixtum; title: The Smaller Cancelleria ("Vicomagistri") Reliefs and Julio-Claudian Imperial Altars : Limitations of the Evidence and Problems in Interpretation; title: Appendix: The Ara Providentiae Augustae, Colossal Seated Statue of Augustus, and Julio-Claudian Ideology; title: The "Insanity" of Caligula or the "Insanity" of the Jews? : Differences in Perception and Religious Beliefs; title: Appendix: The Portraiture of Caligula : Myth, Reality, and Contemporary Attempts at Polychromy; title: "Star Power" in Imperial Rome : Astral Theology, Castorian Imagery, and the Dual Heirs in the Transmission of Leadership.