Scholars - Imperial Image Flashcards
Smith suggests that the depiction of heroes, who have helped mankind so much…
are used so the audience will compare emperors to them
Beard argues that the RGDA is a self serving, partisan and often…
rose tinted piece of work, which carefully glosses or entirely ignores the murderous illegalities of his early career
Zanker suggests that the mausoleum left no doubt as to who would…
determine Rome’s fate from now on
Jenkyns suggests that having poetry written about him, added…
splendour to Augustus and this was its main use in glorifying him
Zanker links the imagery of the breastplate on the prima porta and certain motifs in Horce carmen secularae…
The victory in parthia is thus celebrated as both the perquisite and the consequences of the saeculum aureum (golden age)
Nicholls suggests that the forum created a continuum from the…
founding of rome, through the regal period, the Republic and ending with Augustus
Nicholls argues that the imagery speaks of the benefits of…
peace, plenty and abundance natural and human
Beard suggests that his claim to descend directly from Aeneas helped…
portray the emperor as a fulfilment of Roman destiny, as the ordained re founder of Rome
