Imperial Legitimation
The iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD
Published on 15. December 2020
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-912667-47-5 (ISBN)
Description
This fascinating study of the iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD, which started as a master's dissertation, also includes all Roman coins that have the Saecular Games types, down to 300 AD. The first study of its kind, it also gives a reconstruction of the Games and appendices with texts from well-known classical authors.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-912667-47-5 (9781912667475)
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Persons
Richard Abdy has been a curator of Roman coins at the British Museum for many years, with particular interest in the middle and later imperial periods of the Roman Empire. He has had long experience of recording Roman coin hoards through work on Treasure cases in England. Since his university research for a corpus of the coinage from the Antonine Wall (dominated by Hadrianic material due the dynamics of coin circulation), the lack of a recent - or even post-war - typological reference for the coinage of Hadrian, AD 117 to AD 138, has been evident to him.