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Book SynopsisRoman emperors have long functioned--and continue to function--in the western imagination as paradigms of imperial leadership to be emulated or avoided. This innovative volume brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history. In doing so, it breaks down traditional disciplinary boundaries that have separated the study of emperors in antiquity from their representation in later periods. The individual chapters offer close readings of different texts, media, and contexts, ranging from the Annals of Tacitus, Roman lamps, and triumphal statues to medieval legends, early modern philosophical tracts, twentieth-century novels, and museum exhibitions. Collectively they explore the creative impulses and political agendas that have shaped how we understand Roman emperors today.
Table of Contents1: Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik: Introduction 2: Rhiannon Ash: Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of the Princeps 3: Eleanor Cowan: Julio-Claudian Emperors as Fathers and Sons 4: Estelle Strazdins: Herodes Atticus, Hadrian, and the Antonines: Mediating Power and Self-Promotion in Achaea through Public and Private Display 5: Lucy Grig: Looking for Representations of Emperors in Late Antique Popular Culture 6: Meaghan McEvoy: Educating Theodosius II: Theodosian Child-Emperors and the Manipulation of the Imperial Image 7: M. Shane Bjornlie: Jordanes and the End of the Roman Empire 8: Filippo Carlà-Uhink: 'Per voler del primo amor ch'i' sento': Justinian and Theodora from the Sixth to Sixteenth Centuries 9: Frances Muecke: The Humanists and the Emperors: The Case of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) 10: Shushma Malik: Roman Emperors in Montesquieu's Considerations 11: Penelope Goodman: Retrospective Parentage: Augustus as a Father of Europe 12: David Scourfield: Fictions of Power: Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March and John Williams' Augustus 13: Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik: Epilogue: Towards a Methodology of Representation
