Военная история / Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition

Название: Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition
Автор: Olivier Hekster
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2015
Страниц: 428
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 211 MB

Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Looking beyond individual rulers, Hekster evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations over a prolonged period of time.