Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor (German Edition) - Hardcover

Niederhuber, Christian; Smith, Bert

 
9783752007640: Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor (German Edition)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3752007648 ISBN 13: 9783752007640
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2023

Synopsis

The richly illustrated book presents a fresh argument and new evidence about the workings of the imperial image in the Antonine period, through the changing portraits of the emperor Commodus (180-192) - more than ninety survive. The study also publishes for the first time an important and previously unknown portrait of the emperor, currently in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The late Antonine period was in many ways the apogee of Roman marble portrait carving, and the new Commodus is one of its very best examples, from a workshop close to the imperial court in Rome.

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Publisher
Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Publication date
2023
Language
German
ISBN 10 
3752007648
ISBN 13 
9783752007640
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224