Staging the world : spoils, captives, and representations in the Roman triumphal procession /
An illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession which asks the questions: What was displayed? How was it paraded? What was the response? Ida Ostenberg analyses the stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and the ideas it transmitted about Rome itself. - ;Staging the World is an illu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Latin |
| Language Notes: | Text in English with passages in ancient Greek and Latin followed by English translations. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | An illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession which asks the questions: What was displayed? How was it paraded? What was the response? Ida Ostenberg analyses the stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and the ideas it transmitted about Rome itself. - ;Staging the World is an illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession in its capacity as spectacle and performance. Ida Ostenberg analyses how Rome presented and perceived the defeated on parade. Spoils, captives, and representations are the objects, and the basic questions to be asked concern both contents and context. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191568787 0191568783 9780191706851 019170685X 9786612268496 6612268492 |