Imperial Image Flashcards
Antony as Dionysus
“his enitire lifestyle was shaped by the role”
Zanker
Octavian as Apollo
“Apollo would prove to be ideally suited to Octavian himself and furthering his political image”
Zanker
Saecular games
“Was not merely an automatic godgiven blessing but was to depend onn the moral effort of the romans”
Galinsky
Restoration of religion
“Augustus restored tradition and religious organisation of the state”
Beard
Masouleum
“Young Caesar was eager to highlight the contrast between himself and antony”
Cooley
Prima Porta
“never ageing like Alexander”
Jenkyns
Res Gestae
“Hghly selective”
Brunt and Moore
Ara Pacis
“Echoes the piety of his ancestor Aeneas, even in the
gesture by which he offers sacrifice”
Wallace-Hadrill
Forum of Augustus
“The complete realisation of politics as art”
Beard and Henderson
Coins
“coins are a good medium to articulate one’s power”
Stanier
Poems as a whole
“as propagandists, the poets were useless”
Jenkyns
Propertius
“Propertius displays a cognitive dissonance”
Pandey
Suetonius
“extrapolition of one specific instance to a repeated action”
Wardle
Horace
“has a public and private voice”
Marks
Ovid’s Metamorpheses
“Augustus transformation of rome was a long and gradual process” Wallace-Hadrill
