From republic to empire: rhetoric, religion, and power in the visual culture of ancient Rome

Abstract

Ritualizing Death in Republican Rome : Memory, Religion, Class Struggle, and the Wax Ancestral Mask Tradition's Origin and Influence on Veristic Portraiture -- The Leader and the Divine : Official and Nonofficial Modes of Representation -- Appendix: A Colossal Statue of Titus or Domitian and the Neokorate Temples of Ephesos -- The Cult Statue of Julius Caesar and Heroic and Divine Imagery of Deified Leaders in the Late Republic and Early Principate -- From Warrior to Statesman in Art and Ideology : Octavian/Augustus and the Image of Alexander the Great -- Appendix: Triumphal Frieze of the Actian Monument at Nikopolis -- The Ideology of Peace through Victory and the Ara Pacis Augustae : Visual Rhetoric and the Creation of a Dynastic Narrative -- Appendix A: The Aeneas Panel of the Ara Pacis -- Appendix B: The Mausoleum of Augustus and Its Quadrigate Imagery -- Appendix C: The Ustrinum Augusti -- The Acanthus of the Ara Pacis as an Apolline and Dionysiac Symbol of Anamorphosis, Anakyklosis, and Numen Mixtum -- The Smaller Cancelleria (Vicomagistri) Reliefs and Julio-Claudian Imperial Altars : Limitations of the Evidence and Problems in Interpretation -- Appendix: The Ara Providentiae Augustae, Colossal Seated Statue of Augustus, and Julio-Claudian Ideology -- The Insanity of Caligula or the Insanity of the Jews? : Differences in Perception and Religious Beliefs -- Appendix: The Portraiture of Caligula : Myth, Reality, and Contemporary Attempts at Polychromy -- Star Power in Imperial Rome : Astral Theology, Castorian Imagery, and the Dual Heirs in the Transmission of Leadership.