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Die Frauen Des Römischen Kaiserhauses : Eine Untersuchung Ihrer Bildlichen Darstellung Von Livia Bis Iulia Domna. (The Women of the Roman Imperial House. A Study of Their Images from Livia to Iulia Domna)

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dc.contributor.authorAlexandridis, Annetta
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-21T18:23:16Z
dc.date.available2017-02-21T18:23:16Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractBased on a systematic study of all relevant coins, statues, inscriptions, honorary titles and funerary orations from the Julio-Claudian to the beginning of the Severan dynasties, the book investigates how female members of the Roman Imperial house were represented in public.en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough effectually installing a monarchy (the principate), Octavian/Augustus promulgated his accession to power and rule as a restoration of the republic (res publica restituta) after the civil wars. In such a context, framing the prominent position of the imperial family’s female members proved to be a difficult task. Any evocation of a monarchic dynasty such as the one the Greco-Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII, Augustus’ major opponent, descended from, had to be avoided. Yet, the beginning of a new age asked for new forms of representation, including that of the imperial women. No political office could fully grasp the latter’s role. But the images defined their authority as role models of fecundity, chastity, piety, and/or beauty.
dc.description.abstractThe study pays particular attention to the iconography and semantics of apparel, of divine or metaphoric attributes, of statues and statue types, and to the various media of representation including their different audiences. Comparison between representations of imperial and non-imperial women reveals a complex web of responses, rather than a simple trickle-down effect exerted by the former. During Augustus’ and Tiberius’ reign, the emperors’ female relatives appear in republican tradition, yet with subtle hints at exclusivity. With the principate becoming progressively institutionalized, assimilations to deities in Hellenistic fashion find their way into portraits of rulers and their female relatives. In the second century, under the Antonines, the visual representation of imperial and non-imperial elite women can barely be told apart. The images vigorously promote concordia between imperial husband and wife. Effigies of Iulia Domna, finally, show her in realms that were connoted male: she appears at sacrifice next to the emperor or in the garb of military deities.
dc.description.abstractThe various visual and verbal sources thus attest to how traditional Roman republican and Hellenized appearance (especially the assimilation to deities) were balanced in different ways under each dynasty. In addition, all of the representations harked back in some way to the example set for Livia, wife of the first emperor. Despite all their differences, the images convey the same key concept: As parent of the emperor (parens Augusti, honorary title for Livia), an imperial woman is also a mother of the fatherland (mater patriae, honorary title for Iulia Domna).
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/46297
dc.language.isodeen_US
dc.publisherMainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabernen_US
dc.relation.hasversionAlexandridis, Annetta. Die Frauen Des Römischen Kaiserhauses : Eine Untersuchung Ihrer Bildlichen Darstellung Von Livia Bis Iulia Domna. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 2004.
dc.subjectCeresen_US
dc.subjectconsecrationen_US
dc.subjectconsecratio in formam deorumen_US
dc.subjectdeificationen_US
dc.subjectfecundityen_US
dc.subjectHerculaneumen_US
dc.subjectKleopatra VIIen_US
dc.subjectWoman (large, small)
dc.subjectinscriptions (honorific, votive)
dc.subjectIuno
dc.subjectmonarchy
dc.subjectportrait (busts, statues)
dc.subjectPudicitia
dc.subjectrepresentation
dc.subjectRoman Imperial coinage
dc.subjectRoman Imperial cult
dc.subjectRoman imperial women/ Roman empresses
dc.subjectstola
dc.subjectVenus
dc.subjectnames: Agrippina maior (Iulia)
dc.subjectAgrippina minor
dc.subjectAntonia minor
dc.subjectClaudia Antonia
dc.subjectClaudia Octavia
dc.subjectCrispina
dc.subjectDidia Clara
dc.subjectDomitia Longina
dc.subject(Flavia) Domitilla maior
dc.subject(Flavia) Domitilla minor
dc.subject(Iulia) Drusilla
dc.subjectFaustina maior
dc.subjectFaustina minor
dc.subjectIulia (Augusti, filia)
dc.subjectIulia Domna
dc.subjectIulia Drusilla
dc.subjectIulia Maesa
dc.subjectIulia Mamaea
dc.subjectIulia Titi
dc.subjectLivia ( = Iulia Augusta)
dc.subject(Iulia) Livilla
dc.subjectLucilla
dc.subjectManlia Scantilla
dc.subjectMarciana
dc.subjectMatidia
dc.subject(Valeria) Messalina
dc.subjectOctavia minor
dc.subjectPlautilla
dc.subjectPlotina
dc.subjectPoppaea Sabina
dc.subjectSabina
dc.subjectVipsania Agrippina
dc.titleDie Frauen Des Römischen Kaiserhauses : Eine Untersuchung Ihrer Bildlichen Darstellung Von Livia Bis Iulia Domna. (The Women of the Roman Imperial House. A Study of Their Images from Livia to Iulia Domna)en_US
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