Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 395 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
Series |
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation |
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Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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Contents |
Introduction to dynastic rule -- Part I: Family ties. Running in the family -- Your mother's son -- We go bay back -- Part II: Claiming kinship. Some have ancestors thrust upon them -- Sons of gods and heroes -- The Tetrarchs: Divine brothers and fictive fathers -- Conclusions: Emperors and ancestral representations -- Emperors and their dates of rule -- Imperial Stemmata |
Summary |
This is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which Roman imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Rather than focusing on individual rulers of the Roman Empire, it evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations of power over a prolonged period of time |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Emperors -- Rome.
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Emperors -- Rome -- Sources
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Emperors
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SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
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Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191800429 |
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0191800422 |
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9780191056550 |
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0191056553 |
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0198736827 |
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9780198736820 |
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