Staging the World : Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession Hardback
by Ida (Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies University of Gothenburg) Ostenberg
Part of the Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation series
Hardback
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Staging the World is an illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession in its capacity as spectacle and performance.
Ida Ostenberg analyses how Rome presented and perceived the defeated on parade.
Spoils, captives, and representations are the objects, and the basic questions to be asked concern both contents and context: What was displayed?
How was it paraded? What was the response? The triumph was a crowded civic celebration, when spectators met with coins from Spain and Asia, Jewish temple treasures, silver plate and furniture from opulent royal feasts, trees from eastern gardens, Punic elephants appearing as in battle, kings, long known by name only, and ferocious barbarians dressed in outlandish costumes.
Ostenberg aims to show what stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and what ideas it transmitted about Rome itself.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, 27 black & white photographs
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780199215973
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages, 27 black & white photographs
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199215973
