From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome 9780806142586, 2012013825

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I. Ritualizing Death in Republican Rome: Memory, Religion, Class Struggle, and the Wax Ancestral Mask: Tradition’s Origin and Influence on Veristic Portraiture
Chapter II. The Leader and the Divine: Official and Nonofficial Modes of Representation
Chapter III. The Cult Statue of Julius Caesar and Heroic and Divine Imagery of Deified Leaders in the Late Republic and Early Principate
Chapter IV. From Warrior to Statesman in Art and Ideology: Octavian/Augustus and the Image of Alexander the Great
Appendix: Triumphal Frieze of the Actian Victory Monument at Nikopolis
Chapter V. The Ideology of “Peace through Victory” and the Ara Pacis Augustae: Visual Rhetoric and the Creation of a Dynastic Narrative
Appendix A: The “Aeneas Panel” of the Ara Pacis
Appendix B: The Mausoleum of Augustus and Its Quadrigate Imagery
Appendix C: The Ustrinum Augusti
Chapter VI. The Acanthus of the Ara Pacis as an Apolline and Dionysiac Symbol of Anamorphosis, Anakyklosis, and Numen Mixtum
Chapter VII. The Smaller Cancelleria (“Vicomagistri”) Reliefs and Julio-Claudian Imperial Altars: Limitations of the Evidence and Problems in Interpretation
Appendix: The Ara Providentiae Augustae, Colossal Seated Statue of Augustus, and Julio-Claudian Ideology
Chapter VIII. The “Insanity” of Caligula or the“Insanity” of the Jews? Differences in Perception and Religious Beliefs
Appendix: The Portraiture of Caligula—Myth, Reality, and Contemporary Attempts at Polychromy
Chapter IX. “Star Power” in Imperial Rome: Astral Theology, Castorian Imagery, and the Dual Heirs in the Transmission of Leadership
Conclusion
Color Plates
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Museums and Collections