From republic to empire

University of Oklahoma Press

2012

xxiv, 550 p. [22] p. of plates

Oklahoma series in classical culture ; vol. 48

Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-524) and indexes

9780806142586

Ritualizing Death in Republican Rome : Memory, Religion, Class Struggle, and the Wax Ancestral Mask Tradition's Origin and Influence on Veristic Portraiture -- The Leader and the Divine : Official and Nonofficial Modes of Representation -- Appendix: A Colossal Statue of Titus or Domitian and the Neokorate Temples of Ephesos -- The Cult Statue of Julius Caesar and Heroic and Divine Imagery of Deified Leaders in the Late Republic and Early Principate -- From Warrior to Statesman in Art and Ideology : Octavian/Augustus and the Image of Alexander the Great -- Appendix: Triumphal Frieze of the Actian Victory Monument at Nikopolis -- The Ideology of "Peace through Victory" and the Ara Pacis Augustae : Visual Rhetoric and the Creation of a Dynastic Narrative -- Appendix A: The "Aeneas Panel" of the Ara Pacis -- Appendix B: The Mausoleum of Augustus and Its Quadrigate Imagery -- Appendix C: The Ustrinum Augusti -- The Acanthus of the Ara Pacis as an Apolline and Dionysiac Symbol of Anamorphosis, Anakyklosis, and Numen Mixtum -- The Smaller Cancelleria ("Vicomagistri") Reliefs and Julio-Claudian Imperial Altars : Limitations of the Evidence and Problems in Interpretation -- Appendix: The Ara Providentiae Augustae, Colossal Seated Statue of Augustus, and Julio-Claudian Ideology -- The "Insanity" of Caligula or the "Insanity" of the Jews? : Differences in Perception and Religious Beliefs -- Appendix: The Portraiture of Caligula : Myth, Reality, and Contemporary Attempts at Polychromy -- "Star Power" in Imperial Rome : Astral Theology, Castorian Imagery, and the Dual Heirs in the Transmission of Leadership

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