Margaret L Laird

Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines ancient Roman monuments made by the Augustales, civic groups composed primarily of wealthy ex-slaves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 182mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008229
• ISBN-10: 1107008220
• Artikelnr.: 42409336

Autorenporträt

Margaret L. Laird is a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware. She has received grants from the American Academy in Rome, the Getty Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. She is co-editor of Walls and Memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio), from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond (2005). She has published in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome and has contributed essays to several edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Representation in the Funerary Realm: 1. VIVIR AVG IDEM QQ: text,
image, and context; 2. Ob honorem bisellii: the grammar of representation;
Part II. Augustales in Their Meeting Places: 3. Templum Augusti quod est
Augustalium: municipal and private Augustea; 4. Curia Augustiana: civic
standing and the Collegio degli Augustali at Herculaneum; 5. Res communis
Augustalium: group identity in the Sacello degli Augustali at Misenum XXX;
6. Ob Eximiam Benivolentiam: donors and Augustales in second-century
Misenum; Part III. Monuments in Public: 7. In statuas ponendas: sculpting a
public persona; 8. In vias sternendas: paving your way in the Roman town;
Conclusions.