Staging the World : Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession

Name: Staging the World
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199215973
Price: 37550 KES
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ISBN: 9780199215973

by Ida Ostenberg

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Format Hardback

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: Ancient Rome Pageants, parades, festivals Pageants, parades, festivals European history Classical history / classical civilisation Ancient history European history

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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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