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Cambridge University Press Styling Romanisation
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Cambridge University Press Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the world of polite arts and letters that would later come to be identified with British Romanticism.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… this volume provides a valuable overview of an important sub-area of modern Romantic studies, along with diverse specialised studies from which readers are bound to select those of particular interest to themselves. Elegantly produced, as one would expect from Cambridge University Press, the collection has been tightly edited by Connell and Leask and should be an important resource for scholars and postgraduates for years to come.' Literature and HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. What is the people? Philip Connell and Nigel Leask; Part II. Ballad Poetry and Popular Song: 2. 'A degrading species of Alchymy': ballad poetics, oral tradition and the meanings of popular culture Nigel Leask; 3. Refiguring the popular in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry Leith Davis; 4. 'An individual flowering on a common stem': melody, performance and national song Kirsteen McCue; Part III. Politics and the People: 5. Rus in Urbe John Barrell; 6. The 'sinking down' of Jacobinism and the rise of the counter-revolutionary man of letters Kevin Gilmartin; 7. Shelley's Mask of Anarchy and the visual iconography of female distress Ian Haywood; Part IV. The Urban Experience: 8. Popularizing the public: Robert Chambers and the rewriting of the antiquarian city Ina Ferris; 9. Keats, popular culture and the sociability of theatre Gillian Russell; 10. A world within walls: Haydon, The Mock Election and debtors' prisons Greg Dart; Part V. Canon-Formation and the Common Reader: 11. Every-day poetry: William Hone, popular antiquarianism, and the literary anthology Mina Gorji; 12. How to popularize Wordsworth Philip Connell.
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Cambridge University Press The Look of the Past
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Cambridge University Press The Material World of Ancient Egypt
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the PreRaphaelites
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths
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Cambridge University Press Art Science and the Body in Early Romanticism
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Cambridge University Press The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa
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Cambridge University Press Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West
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Cambridge University Press Marketing Violence
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Cambridge University Press Drawing from the Archives
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Cambridge University Press The Near Future in TwentyFirstCentury Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Yahweh and the Origins of Ancient Israel
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Cambridge University Press Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art
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Cambridge University Press Phenomenology of the Icon
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Cambridge University Press Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting R. G. Collingwood
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Cambridge University Press Dress Cultures in Zambia
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Cambridge University Press The Chertsey Tiles the Crusades and Global Textile Motifs
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
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Cambridge University Press Imagining War and Peace in EighteenthCentury Britain 16901820
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Cambridge University Press Visualizing Christs Miracles in Late Byzantium
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power
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Cambridge University Press Roman Identity and Lived Religion
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Cambridge University Press Rebuilding St. Pauls Outside the Walls
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Cambridge University Press The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science
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Cambridge University Press Freed Persons in the Roman World
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Cambridge University Press Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
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Cambridge University Press The Mirror of Art
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Cambridge University Press The Chertsey Tiles the Crusades and Global Textile Motifs
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Cambridge University Press Relief in Greek Roman and Late Antique Art
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Cambridge University Press Labour of the Stitch
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Cambridge University Press Under Divine Auspices
Book SynopsisUses the evidence of coins to explore how deities were used to communicate and negotiate imperial power under the Severan dynasty (AD 193–235). Demonstrates the dynamic nature of the imperial public image and the complex dialogue that existed between Rome and the wider empire in this period.Trade Review'Under Divine Auspices will prove valuable not only for those interested in Severan propaganda, but for students of Roman history in general.' Julie Langford, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'One of the strengths of [this] book is the way that coinage is interpreted within the broader cultural and visual context. It is a fluent and convincing book with a plethora of hard facts and statistics, and it is hoped that similar detailed numismatic studies of other reigns will be forthcoming. Rowan's [volume] will be very useful to scholars of the Severan period, those engaging with imperial ideology and numismatics more generally.' Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, The Journal of Roman StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Contextualising a 'foreign' dynasty; 3. Septimius Severus, Liber Pater and Hercules; 4. Medical tourism and iconographic dialogues in the reign of Caracalla; 5. Elagabalus, Summus Sacerdos Elagabali; 6. Severus Alexander and the re-founding of Rome; Conclusion: divine ideology in the Severan dynasty; Appendix 1. Silver reverse types from Trajan to Severus Alexander; Appendix 2. Reverse silver dies of the 'stone on quadriga' type of Elagabalus; Appendix 3. List of hoards used.
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Cambridge University Press The Mystic Ark
Book SynopsisIn this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor''s forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor''s Mystic Ark (c.112530) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society''s elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Mystic Ark lectures; 2. The image of The Mystic Ark; 3. Conclusion: The Mystic Ark and the multiplication and systematization of imagery; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Egypt in Italy
Book SynopsisThis book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy.Trade Review'The author is to be applauded for showing how important it is to think of Roman material culture as precisely that - Roman - serving the needs and concerns of its Roman patrons, despite its historical or stylistic origins. She succeeds in her aim of integrating Egyptian-style objects into the wider history of Roman art, and in showing that context matters, with objects' meanings changing along with their owners and viewers. It is an important contribution to our wider understanding of the extent to which Roman culture in general, and Roman art in particular, was forged in the crucible of appropriation.' Zahra Newby, The Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: from Egypt to Italy; 1. Egyptian objects, Roman contexts: appropriation and aesthetics; 2. Aegyptus Redacta: Augustus' obelisks and the spoils of Egypt; 3. The sanctuary of Isis in Pompeii: dedication and devotion, myth and ritual; Appendix 3.1: marble inscriptions from the sanctuary of Isis; Appendix 3.2: dipinti near the sanctuary of Isis; Appendix 3.3: multiples and adaptations: Io panel paintings; Appendix 3.4: graffiti quoting; or, adapting Ovid from Pompeii; 4. Images of Egypt: land at the limit of belief; Appendix 4: the structure and argument of 'Juvenal 15'; Conclusion: the afterlives of objects.
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Cambridge University Press The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome commissioned by popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Erik Thunø situates the apse mosaics within the context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with time, intercession, materiality, repetition, and vision.Table of Contents1. Repetition: saints, popes, and golden texts; 2. Transformation: from material church to spiritual body; 3. Incorporation: becoming a living stone; 4. Networking: building a communion sanctorum; Afterword: meaning and presence; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Architects and the Building World from Chambers to Ruskin
Book SynopsisThis study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… the scholarship is impressive …' Architecture TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Section 1. 'The Shadow of their Wings': The Architect among Builders: 1. John Gwynn; 2. William Chambers; 3. The example of Chambers; Section 2. 'The Poetry of Architecture': The Architect above Builders: 4. Joseph Gwilt; 5. John Soane; 6. The example of Soane; Part II: Section 3. 'Mystery and Craft Are Gone By': The Poet's Descent: 7. A language of men; 8. The pictorial art; Section 4. 'He Never Condescended': Coming to Terms with New Disciplines: 9. Charles Barry; 10. Pugin; 11. A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists; Part III: Section 5. 'Conjunctive All': The Sharing of Knowledge in Building: 12. John Britton; 13. The Artizan; Section 6. 'Orthodoxy of Practice': The Builder and a New Freemasonry: 14. Josiah Hansom and The Builder; 15. Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the freemasons of the Church; 16. Bartholemew's College; 17. Godwin's Builder; Part IV: Section 7. Ruskin's Changing Prospect: 18. Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon; 19. The poetry of architecture; 20. Modern Painters I and II; 21. The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Part V: Section 8. Ruskin's Descent: 22. Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle; 23. The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett; 24. Ruskin in 1854 and 1855; 25. Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites; Part VI: Section 9. Incarnation: 26. Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum; 27. Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum; 28. Deane and Woodward; 29. Pre-Raphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum; Part VII: Section 10. Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s: 30. John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin; 31. G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts; 32. E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect'; 33. The architectural museum in the late 1850s; 34. The failure of the Oxford Museum; 35. Ruskin's lectures to architects; Part VIII. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Surrealism and the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisThis 2005 study traces the development of Surrealist theory of visual art and its reception, from the birth of Surrealism to its institutionalization in the mid-1930s. Situating Surrealist art theory in its theoretical and discursive contexts, Kim Grant demonstrates the complex interplay between Surrealism and contemporary art criticism.Trade Review"Surrealism and the Visual Arts is an excellently researched companion through this hectic journey." The Art Book, Robert Radford, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsPart I. Poetry in the Theory and Criticism of Modern Painting in France: 1. The tradition of poetry and lyricism in French art criticism; 2. Modern painting as poetic language; 3. The discovery of lyricism; 4. André Breton and modern art; Part II. Establishing a Surrealist Visual Art: 5. Defining Surrealism; 6. Defining Surrealist visual art; 7. Surrealism and painting I: the foundation of Surrealist art; 8. La Peinture Surréaliste: the presentation of Surrealist art and its reception; 9. Surrealism and painting II: materialism and morality; Part III. The Threat of Surrealist Art: 10. Initiating the challenge; 11. Surrealism and painting III: avoiding automatism; 12. Appropriating automatism; 13. Realism and Surrealism; Part IV. Poetry Made Concrete: 14. Defying painting; 15. Remaking reality; 16. Automatic style; 17. Conclusion: Surrealism as an institution.
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Cambridge University Press The Transhistorical Image Philosophizing Art and
Book SynopsisWhy are visual artworks experienced as having intrinsic significance or normative depth? Why are some works of art better able to manifest this significance than others? In this 2002 book Paul Crowther argues that we can answer these questions only if we have a full analytic definition of visual art. Crowther's approach focuses on the pictorial image, broadly construed to include abstract work and recent conceptually-based idioms. The significance of art depends, however, essentially on the transhistorical nature of the pictorial image, the way in which its illuminative power is extended through historical transformation of the relevant artistic medium. Crowther argues against fashionable forms of cultural relativism, while at the same time showing why it is important that an appreciation of the history of art is integral to aesthetic judgment.Trade Review"[A]n impressive case." Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. Formalism, art history and effective historical differences; 2. More than ornament: Riegl and the problem of style; 3. The objective significance of perspective: Panofsky with Cassirer; Part II: 4. The fundamental categories of art history; Part III: 5. The abstract image: a theory of non-figurative art; 6. The containment of memory: Duchamp, Fahrenholz and the Box; Conclusion: Conceptual art, even ... (fundamental categories thereof); Appendix. The logical basis of pictorial representation.
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Cambridge University Press Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage Form Meaning and Ideology in Monumental Fountain Complexes
Book SynopsisIn this book, Brenda Longfellow examines one of the features of Roman Imperial cities, the monumental civic fountain. Built in cities throughout the Roman Empire during the first through third centuries AD, these fountains were imposing in size, frequently adorned with grand sculptures, and often placed in highly trafficked areas. Over twenty-five of these urban complexes can be associated with emperors. Dr Longfellow situates each of these examples within its urban environment and investigates the edifice as a product of an individual patron and a particular historical and geographical context. She also considers the role of civic patronage in fostering a dialogue between imperial and provincial elites with the local urban environment. Tracing the development of the genre across the empire, she illuminates the motives and ideologies of imperial and local benefactors in Rome and the provinces and explores the complex interplay of imperial power, patronage, and the local urban environmeTrade Review'Through an exhaustive and accurate review of archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, Longfellow has demonstrated the tremendous importance of emperors in the dialectic exchange between local communities, local patrons and their rulers.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'Lively, well-written accounts of individual monuments include examples that deserve to be better known, such as the fountain in the Terrace of Domitian, or Sagalassos' newly reconstructed nymphaeum of Tiberius Claudius Piso. The bibliography on fountain architecture and art is thorough and up-to-date.' American Journal of ArchaeologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Precedents for Roman monumental civic fountains; 2. Innovative designs: the Flavian fountains in Rome; 3. Rome in the provinces: monumental civic fountains dedicated to Domitian and Trajan; 4. Emperors abroad: Hadrian and Roman nymphaea in Greece; 5. Variation and innovation: Hadrian and local elites in Asia Minor; 6. Severan emperors and the return of imperial nymphaea to Rome; 7. Imperial patronage and urban display of Roman monumental fountains and nymphaea.
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Cambridge University Press Comic Acting and Portraiture in LateGeorgian and
Book SynopsisJim Davis explores the relationship between comic performance and the visual arts in England c.17801830, focussing on the influence of Hogarth and Wilkie on theatre criticism and portraiture, caricature as critique and the contribution of comic actors to notions of national identity.Table of ContentsPart I. English Comic Actors and their Representation: 1. The low comic actor; 2. Artists and comic actors; 3. Perspectives on comedy and comic acting; Part II. Humorous as a Sketch by Hogarth: 4. Comedy and caricature: Joseph Munden and Isabella Mattocks; 5. John Liston: caricaturing preachers and cockneys; 6. The low comedian as material object; 7. Caricature, degradation, persona and portraiture; 8. Paintings by George Clint; Part III. Chaste as a Picture by Wilkie: 9. Wilkie, everyday life and the theatre; 10. Acting from nature and observation; 11. John Bannister: 'the best kind of Englishman'; 12. John Emery: 'this Wilkie of Actors'; 13. Actors as artists and connoisseurs; Part IV. Alone I Did It! The Case of Charles Mathews: 14. Charles Mathews 'at home'; 15. Charles Mathews: paintings, portraits and prints; 16. The Harlow portrait of Charles Mathews.
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Cambridge University Press Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
Book SynopsisThe practice of signing works of art, which begins in the eighth century BCE, sets the Greeks apart from most other peoples of the ancient world. This book offers insight into Greek conceptions of art, the artist, and artistic originality by examining the phenomenon of artists' signatures in ancient Greece.Table of ContentsPart I. On the Status, Originality, and Difference of the Greek Artist: 1. Euthykartides' toes: signatures and the status of the Greek artist; 2. Greek exceptionalism in the ancient world; Part II. Who Signed What, Where, How?: 3. Gems; 4. Coins; 5. Architecture; 6. Wall- and panel-painting; 7. Mosaics; 8. Vases; 9. Metalwork; 10. Sculpture; Part III. Speculation: 11. Why?; Glossary; Appendix: ancient sources.
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Cambridge University Press Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Book SynopsisThis book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water, and the fountains, large and small, from which it gushed. Papers consider spring water, rainwater and seawater; water suitable for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains real, imagined and symbolic. Experts in the history of art and culture, archaeology and theology, and poetry and prose, offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one locaTable of ContentsIntroduction Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson; 1. Where do we go now? The archaeology of monumental fountains in the Roman and early Byzantine East Julian Richard; 2. Monumental waterworks in Late Antique Constantinople Paul Stephenson and Ragnar Hedlund; 3. Fistulae and water fraud in Late Antique Constantinople Gerda de Kleijn; 4. The Silahtarağa statues in context Brenda Longfellow; 5. The bronze goose from the hippodrome Rowena Loverance; 6. The serpent column fountain Paul Stephenson; 7. The culture of water in the 'Macedonian Renaissance' Paul Magdalino; 8. When bath became church: spatial fusion in Late Antique Constantinople and beyond Jesper Blid Kullberg; 9. Zoomorphic rainwater spouts Philipp Niewöhner; 10. Spouts and finials defining fountains by giving water shape and sound Eunice Dauterman Maguire; 11. Fountains of paradise in early Byzantine art, homilies, and hymns Brooke Shilling; 12. Where did the waters of paradise go after iconoclasm? Henry Maguire; 13. 'Rejoice, Spring.' The Theotokos as a fountain in the liturgical practice of Byzantine hymnography Helena Bodin; 14. Words, water, and power: literary fountains and metaphors of patronage in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Ingela Nilsson; 15. Ancient water in fictional fountains: waterworks in Byzantine novels and romances Terése Nilsson; 16. The shrine of the Theotokos at the Pege Isabel Kimmelfield; 17. A dome for the water: canopied fountains and cypress trees in Byzantine and early Ottoman Constantinople Federica Broilo; 18. Sinan's ablution fountains Johan Mårtelius.
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Cambridge University Press The Emperor and Rome Space Representation and Ritual 35 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 35
Book SynopsisThe transition from republic to monarchy with the accession of Augustus heralded the transformation not just of the Roman political system but of the city of Rome itself. This volume, written by some of the foremost scholars from around the world, addresses three main topics: the impact of imperial building programs on the configuration of space within the city and on the evolution of Rome's urban image; the various ways in which the figure of the emperor himself was represented, both visually and symbolically, in the city's urban fabric; and the performance of rituals and ceremonies that expressed key imperial ideals and values and enabled communications between the emperor and important collectivities in the city. The contributors build on important recent developments in research: increased archaeological excavation and restoration, the proliferation of digital technologies, and the greater attention paid by scholars to the centuries after Augustus.Table of ContentsIntroduction Björn C. Ewald and Carlos F. Noreña; 1. By the emperor, for the people: 'popular' architecture in Rome Paul Zanker; 2. The emperor and senatorial aristocracy in competition for public space Werner Eck; 3. Propaganda, staged applause, or local politics? Public monuments from Augustus to Septimius Severus Emanuel Mayer; 4. Pompey's Theater and Tiberius' Temple of Concord: a Late Republican primer for an early Imperial patron James E. Packer; 5. Antonine Rome: security in the homeland Mary T. Boatwright; 6. Liberator urbis suae: Constantine and the ghost of Maxentius Elizabeth Marlowe; 7. The portraits of Roman emperors and their families: controversial positions and unresolved problems Klaus Fittschen; 8. Crossing the pomerium: the armed ruler at Rome Michael Koortbojian; 9. How the Emperor Nero lost acceptance in Rome Egon Flaig; 10. The imperial funerary pyre as a work of ephemeral architecture Eve D'Ambra; 11. Roman imperial funerals in effigie Javier Arce.
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