Emperors and Ancestors - Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition

Zusatztext The book is also splendidly illustrated. More than a hundred black-and-white photographs enable readers to examine with their own eyes many of the sources on which Hekster's argument is based ... This is an extremely useful book. Informationen zum Autor Olivier Hekster is Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Klappentext Emperors and Ancestors analyses the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented, looking at the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted, such as coinage, inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, and literary text. Zusammenfassung Emperors and Ancestors analyses the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented, looking at the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted, such as coinage, inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, and literary text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1: Introduction Part 1: Family Ties 2: Running in the Family 3: Your Mother's Son 4: We Go Way Back Part 2: Claiming Kinship 5: Some Have Ancestors Thrust Upon Them 6: Sons of Gods and Heroes 7: The Tetrarchs: Divine Brothers and Fictive Fathers Conclusions: Emperors and Ancestral Representations List of Emperors Stemmata Bibliography Index locorum General Index

Product details

• Authors: Olivier Hekster, Hekster Olivier
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2015
• EAN: 9780198736820
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873682-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 252 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation; Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult; Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation; Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult; Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Material Culture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology