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Imperial Women
Susan E. Wood
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A Study in Public Images, 40 B.c. - A.d. 68
出版BRILL, 2000-01-01
主題Art / History / Ancient & ClassicalArchitecture / Interior Design / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN97890041196979004119698
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=234V-2xJg1wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋From the end of the Roman Republic to the death of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, portraits of women - on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects - became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the empire. These women usually represented the distinguished bloodlines of the head of the state, or his hopes for succession, but in every case, their images were freighted with political significance. These objects also communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women. This volume traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented "in propria persona" on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.