Multilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portaiture (Monumenta Graeca et Romana) (Monumenta Graeca Et Romana)
Multilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portaiture (Monumenta Graeca et Romana) (Monumenta Graeca Et Romana)
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Book Description
The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. Representations of 'bad' emperors, such as Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, or Elagabalus were routinely reconfigured into likenesses of victorious successors or revered predecessors. Alternatively, portraits could be physically attacked and mutilated or even executed in effigy. From the late first century B.C. until the fourth century A.D., the recycling and destruction of images of emperors, empresses, and other members of the imperial family occurred on a vast scale and often marked periods of violent political transition. This volume catalogues and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for damnatio memoriae and ultimately reveals its praxis to be at the core of Roman cultural identity.
About the Author
Eric R. Varner, Ph.D. (1993) in Classics, Yale University is Assistant Professor of Art History and Classics, Emory University. He has published on Roman portraits, including the catalogue From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Imperial Portraiture (Atlanta, 2000).
Multilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portaiture (Monumenta Graeca et Romana) (Monumenta Graeca Et Romana),Eric R. Varner,Brill Academic Publishers,9004135774,Ancient - General,Art & Art Instruction,Europe - Italy,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Popular Culture - General
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- Quaestiones Propertianae (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
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