| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Impact of empire : Roman Empire c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476 ; volume 40 |
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Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 27 B.C.-A.D. 406) (Series) ; 40.
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| Contents |
Emperors and tyrants in the fourth century : outlining a new portrait of the ruler and of his role through images and words / Ignazio Tantillo -- Constantine's Arch: a reassessment in the light of textual and material evidence / Diederik Burgersdijk -- Purple and the depiction of Constantine in Eusebius and other contemporaneous Panegyrical works / José B. Torres -- The Caesars: a myth on Julian's emperorship / María Pilar García Ruiz -- Cosmic warnings and imperial responses: Ammianus' astronomical excursuses / Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz -- Between expressionism and classicism: stylistic choices as means of legitimisation in late fourth-century imperial portraits / Fabio Guidetti -- The letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): two imperial images in conflict / María Victoria Escribano -- Toying with Theodosius: the manipulation of the imperial image in the sources of the riot of the statues / Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas -- Managing the empire while securing the throne: Theodosius I and the administrative structures of his empire / Daniëlle Slootjes |
| Summary |
"What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes. The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2021) |
| Subject |
Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Visual communication -- Political aspects -- Rome
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Symbolism in politics -- Rome
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Image (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- Rome
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Politics and literature -- Rome
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Latin literature -- Political aspects
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Politics and literature
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Symbolism in politics
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Visual communication -- Political aspects
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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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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
García Ruiz, Ma. Pilar (María Pilar), editor, author.
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Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J., 1978- editor, author.
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| LC no. |
2020045225 |
| ISBN |
9789004446922 |
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9004446923 |
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