Divinization of Caesar and Augustus - Precedents, Consequences, Implications

Informationen zum Autor Michael Koortbojian is Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles on Roman Art and Renaissance antiquarianism, and his book Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi was published in 1995. He has been a Fellow of the Warburg Institute, King's College, Cambridge, and the American Academy in Rome. Klappentext This book examines the newly institutionalized divinization of Caesar and Augustus at the advent of the Roman empire. Zusammenfassung This book examines the new institution of divinization that emerged at the close of the Roman republic. Michael Koortbojian addresses the myriad problems related to Caesar's and Augustus' divinization! and offers a series of detailed investigations of their varied representational forms - monumental! epigraphical! numismatic! and ritual. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Making men gods; 2. The question of Caesar's divinity and the problem of his cult statue; 3. Augural images: old traditions and new institutions; 4. Romulus, Quirinus, genius, divus; 5. Caesar's portrait and the Simulacrum Divi Iulii; 6. Auspicious, propitious, victorious; 7. Representation in an era of divinization; 8. Ad urbem et ex urbe: the imagery of the divus and its fate; 9. Coda: reverberations in the east.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Koortbojian, Michael (Princeton University Koortbojian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9780521192156
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19215-6
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 265 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book; Kunstgeschichte, Klassik, Antike, Europäische Geschichte, altes Rom, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte