"What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes. The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other"--
In this volume, nine contributions deal with the ways in which imperial power was exercised in the fourth century AD, paying particular attention to how it was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes.
Recenzijas
Alle neun Beiträge sind auf jeweils eigene Weise in Form voneinander unabhängiger Studien Fragen der kaiserlichen Repräsentation im vierten Jahrhundert n. Chr. gewidmet und versuchen so, to disantagle [ statt richtig: disentangle] the complex web of propagandistic formats that converge in the figure of the emperor in order to show how these formats were meant to create an ideological wardrobe at the service of each emperor (S. 8). Somit sind sie willkommene Bereicherungen zu einem wichtigen Forschungsfeld. Ulrich Lambrecht, in Plekos vol.24.S: 13-23 (2022)
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Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas |
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1 Emperors and Tyrants in the Fourth Century. Outlining a New Portrait of the Ruler and of His Role through Images and Words |
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2 Constantine's Arch: A Reassessment in the Light of Textual and Material Evidence |
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3 Purple and the Depiction of Constantine in Eusebius and Other Contemporaneous Panegyrical Works |
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4 The Caesars: A Myth on Julian's Emperorship |
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5 Cosmic Warnings and Imperial Responses: Ammianus' Astronomical Excursuses |
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PART 3 From the Valentinians to Theodosius |
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6 Between Expressionism and Classicism: Stylistic Choices as Means of Legitimisation in Late Fourth-Century Imperial Portraits |
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7 The Letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): Two Imperial Images in Conflict |
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8 Toying with Theodosius: The Manipulation of the Imperial Image in the Sources of the Riot of the Statues |
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9 Managing the Empire while Securing the Throne: Theodosius I and the Administrative Structures of His Empire |
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| Index of Names and Subjects |
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Marķa Pilar Garcķa Ruiz is Reader in Classics at the University of Navarra, Spain. She specializes in late antique literature, focusing in particular on Ammianus Res Gestae, the Panegyrici Latini collection and the emperor Julians writings.
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas is Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain. His research interests lie primarily in late antique literature and rhetoric, topics about which he has published several papers and books.
Contributors are: Diederik Burgersdijk, Marķa Victoria Escribano, Marķa Pilar Garcķa Ruiz, Fabio Guidetti, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas , Įlvaro Sįnchez-Ostiz, Daniėlle Slootjes, Ignazio Tantillo, José B. Torres.
