Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy

Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy

Laird, Margaret L. (University of Delaware)

Cambridge University Press

09/2015

364

Dura

Inglês

9781107008229

15 a 20 dias

This book examines ancient Roman statues and their bases, tombs, altars, and panels commemorating gifts of civic beneficence made by the Augustales, civic groups composed primarily of wealthy ex-slaves. These objects reveal how ordinary Romans expressed their communal identities.
Part I. Representation in the Funerary Realm: 1. VIVIR AVG IDEM QQ: text, image, and context; 2. Ob honorem bisellii: the grammar of representation; Part II. Augustales in Their Meeting Places: 3. Templum Augusti quod est Augustalium: municipal and private Augustea; 4. Curia Augustiana: civic standing and the Collegio degli Augustali at Herculaneum; 5. Res communis Augustalium: group identity in the Sacello degli Augustali at Misenum XXX; 6. Ob Eximiam Benivolentiam: donors and Augustales in second-century Misenum; Part III. Monuments in Public: 7. In statuas ponendas: sculpting a public persona; 8. In vias sternendas: paving your way in the Roman town; Conclusions.
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