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Author Hekster, Olivier, author

Title Emperors and ancestors : Roman rulers and the constraints of tradition / Olivier Hekster
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 395 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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.
Emperors -- Rome -- Sources
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Emperors
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
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