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Author Zanker, Paul, author

Title The power of images in the Age of Augustus / Paul Zanker ; translated by Alan Shapiro
Edition First paperback edition
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1990
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1990, c1988
©1988

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Description vii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Jerome lectures ; 16th ser
Jerome lectures ; 16th ser
Contents Conflict and contradiction in the imagery of the dying republic -- Rival images: Octavian, Antony, and the struggle for sole power -- The great turning point: intimations of a new imperial style -- The Augustan program of cultural renewal -- The mythical foundations of the the new Rome -- Form and meaning of the new mythology -- The new imagery in the private sphere -- The Roman empire of Augustus: imperial myth and cult in east and west
Notes First paperback edition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-370) and index
Subject Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Art and society -- Rome.
Art, Roman -- Themes, motives.
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115125
LC no. 88017279
ISBN 0472081241
9780472081240