
Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor
The Public Image of a Roman Emperor
Reichert Verlag
Published on 20. December 2023
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-3-7520-0764-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Publishing group
Reichert, L
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
485
323 farbige Abbildungen, 162 s/w Abbildungen
100 Tafeln
Dimensions
Height: 31 cm
Width: 23 cm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1434 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7520-0764-0 (9783752007640)
Schweitzer Classification