Under Divine Auspices - Divine Ideology Visualisation of Imperial Power in Severan Period

Informationen zum Autor Clare Rowan completed her doctorate in ancient history at Macquarie University in 2009. She has been a Junior Fellow and Research Officer at the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies and the Macquarie Gale Fellow at the British School at Rome, and is now employed on the project 'Coinage and the Dynamics of Power: the Western Mediterranean 500–100 BC' at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Klappentext Exploration of the role played by deities in the negotiation of imperial power under the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235). Zusammenfassung Uses 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 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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• Authors: Clare Rowan, Clare (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat F Rowan, Rowan Clare
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2013
• EAN: 9781107020122
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02012-2
• No. of pages: 317
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Roman style