Representing Rome's emperors : historical and cultural perspectives through time /
'Representing Rome's Emperors' brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history, breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries that have separated the study of emp...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- 1. Why Representing Rome's Emperors Now?
- 2. History and/as Representation
- 3. Representation and Reception
- 4. History as Fiction?
- 5. The Ingenuity of Material Images
- 6. Fragmented Foundations
- 7. Beneficent Imperialism
- 2. Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of the Princeps
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Coram: The Perils of Proximity
- 3. Procul: The Dangers of Distance
- 3. Julio-Claudian Emperors as Fathers and Sons
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Emperor as pater patriae
- 3. Pater as pater patriae
- 4. The Emperor as pater and 'Bad Father'
- 5. Gaius, Claudius, and Nero as Failed Fathers
- 6. The Emperor as Son and 'Bad Son'
- 7. Conclusion
- 4. Herodes Atticus, Hadrian, and the Antonines: Mediating Power and Self-Promotion in Achaea through Public and Private Display
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Herodes, the 'Second Sophistic', Hadrian, and the Antonines
- 3. A Protome of Hadrian from Loukou
- 4. Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus in the Landscape of Marathon
- 5. Conclusion: Empire by Proxy?
- 5. Looking for Representations of Emperors in Late Antique Popular Culture
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Imperial Portraits and Their Many Contexts
- 3. Telling Stories about Emperors
- 4. The Emperor and His Image at Carnival
- 5. Conclusions (Or Did Anyone Care What the Emperor Looked like?)
- 6. Educating Theodosius II: Theodosian Child-Emperors and the Manipulation of the Imperial Image
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Child-Emperors in the Late Roman World
- 3. The Role and Function of the Emperor in Late Antiquity
- 4. The Enduring Image of Theodosius II
- 5. The Youthful Military Promise of a Child-Emperor.
- 6. The Martial Image of a Non-Campaigning Emperor
- 7. Piety: The Key to the Security of the State
- 8. Conclusion: Systemic Manipulation: Looking at the Whole Picture
- 7. Jordanes and the End of the Roman Empire
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Romana
- 3. The Getica
- 4. Jordanes in Constantinople
- 8. 'Per voler del primo amor ch'i' sento': Justinian and Theodora from the Sixth to Sixteenth Centuries
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Contemporary Viewpoints
- 3. The Afterlife of Justinian and Theodora in the East
- 4. Papacy and Heresy
- 5. The Belisarius Legend
- 6. Dante and Justinian the Lawgiver
- 7. The Imperial Couple in Ravenna
- 8. Conclusion
- 9. The Humanists and the Emperors: The Case of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463)
- I
- II
- III
- 10. Roman Emperors in Montesquieu's Considerations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Impotent Imperatores
- 3. Considerations as Manifesto
- 4. Conclusion
- 11. Retrospective Parentage: Augustus as a Father of Europe
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Europe and Its Parentage
- 3. Augustus and Europe: The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 4. Augustus and Europe: The Second World War to the Present Day
- 5. Conclusion
- 12. Fictions of Power: Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March and John Williams's Augustus
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- III
- IV
- 13. Epilogue: Towards a Methodology of Representation
- Index
- Publisher's Acknowledgements.