Representations of war in ancient Rome / edited by Sheila Dillon, Katherine E. Welch

Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Physical Description: xiv, 365 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 27 cm
Additional Creators: Dillon, Sheila and Welch, Katherine E.

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Contents

The transformation of victory into power / Tonio Hölscher -- Siege narrative in Livy / Jonathan P. Roth -- Roman aesthetics and the spoils of Syracuse / Myles McDonnell -- Domi militiaeque : Roman domestic aesthetics and war booty in the Republic / Katherine E. Welch -- The origins of the Roman scaenae frons and the architecture of triumphal games in the second century B.C. / Laura S. Klar -- The bringer of victory : imagery and institutions at the advent of empire / Michael Koortbojian -- Conquest and desire : Roman Victoria in public and provincial sculpture / Rachel Kousser -- Women on the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and the visual language of Roman victory / Sheila Dillon -- Battle imagery and politics on the Severan Arch in the Roman Forum / Susann Lusnia -- Readings in the narrative literature of Roman courage / William V. Harris.

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0521848172
9780521848176

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-348) and index.

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