Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession - Couverture rigide

Ostenberg, Ida

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199215979 ISBN 13 : 9780199215973

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ida Ostenberg is Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199215979
• ISBN 13: 9780199215973
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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