Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity : Images and Narratives /

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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Other Authors: Ruiz, María Pilar García (Editor), Puertas, Alberto J. Quiroga (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Impact of Empire ; 40.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441040.

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Visual communication > Political aspects > Rome.
Symbolism in politics > Rome.
Image (Philosophy) > Political aspects > Rome.
Politics and literature > Rome.
Latin literature > Political aspects.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

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Call Number: DG311

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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.