Emperors and emperorship in late antiquity : images and narratives /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: García Ruiz, Ma. Pilar (María Pilar) (Author, Editor), Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J., 1978- (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 27 B.C.-A.D. 406) (Series) ; 40.
Subjects:
30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Visual communication > Political aspects > Rome.
Symbolism in politics > Rome.
Image (Philosophy) > Political aspects > Rome.
Politics and literature > Rome.
Latin literature > Political aspects.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Communication visuelle > Aspect politique > Rome.
Symbolisme en politique > Rome.
Image (Philosophie) > Aspect politique > Rome.
Politique et littérature > Rome.
Littérature latine > Aspect politique.
Politics and literature
Rhetoric, Ancient
Symbolism in politics
Visual communication > Political aspects
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire)
Rome (Empire)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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