From republic to empire : rhetoric, religion, and power in the visual culture of ancient Rome / John Pollini.
| Author/creator | Pollini, John |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st. |
| Publication Info | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2012. |
| Description | xxiv, 549 pages 22 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 48 Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 48. ^A248147 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-524) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2012013825 |
| ISBN | 9780806142586 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0806142588 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | N72 .P6 P655 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |