From republic to empire : rhetoric, religion, and power in the visual culture of ancient Rome /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pollini, John
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]
Edition:	1st.
Series:	Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 48.
Subjects:	Art > Political aspects > Rome. Art, Roman. Visual communication > Political aspects > Rome. Art and society > Rome. ART / History / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.