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Multilation and Transformation - 9789004135772

Un libro in lingua di Varner Eric R. edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2004

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From the late first century BC through the fourth century AD, it was common practice in Rome to reconfigure marble, bronze, and painted likenesses of deposed emperors into the likeness of a popular successor. Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, and Elagabalus were among the emperors so treated. Varner (art history and classics, Emory U.) catalogs and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic, and epigraphic evidence for what is now called damnatio memoriae, or the condemnation of memory, and argues that altering the record of history for the advantage of the current political elite lay at the core of Roman cultural identity. He includes 215 black-and-white photographs of the examples he describes. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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