Bollingen Series (General). Twelve Caesars : : Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern / / Mary Beard.
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we rea...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bollingen Series (General) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 242 color + 18 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- I The emperor on the mall: an introduction
- II Who’s who in the twelve Caesars
- III Coins and portraits, ancient and modern
- IV The twelve Caesars, more or less
- V The most famous Caesars of them all
- VI Satire, subversion and assassination
- VII Caesar’s wife . . . above suspicion?
- VIII Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix The Verses underneath Sadeler’s Series of Emperors and Empresses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Index