Staging the World : Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
ISBN-10
0199215979
ISBN-13
9780199215973
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 21st, 2009
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
866 grams
Dimensions
25.90 x 20.20 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Pageants, parades, festivalsEuropean historyClassical history / classical civilisation
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An illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession which asks the questions: What was displayed? How was it paraded? What was the response? Ida Ostenberg analyses the stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and the ideas it transmitted about Rome itself.
Staging the World is an illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession in its capacity as spectacle and performance. Ida Ostenberg analyses how Rome presented and perceived the defeated on parade. Spoils, captives, and representations are the objects, and the basic questions to be asked concern both contents and context: What was displayed? How was it paraded? What was the response? The triumph was a crowded civic celebration, when spectators met with coins from Spain and Asia, Jewish temple treasures, silver plate and furniture from opulent royal feasts, trees from eastern gardens, Punic elephants appearing as in battle, kings, long known by name only, and ferocious barbarians dressed in outlandish costumes. Ostenberg aims to show what stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and what ideas it transmitted about Rome itself.
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