Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture / by Eric R. Varner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and indexes.

Developments, Implications, and Precedents -- Caligula, Milonia Ceasonia and Julia Drusilla -- Neor and Poppaea -- Other Julio-Claudians -- A.D. 69 -- Domitian -- Commodus, Lucilla, Crispina and Annia Fundania Faustina -- The Severans A.D. 193-235 -- The Later Third Century (235-285) -- The Early Fourth Century -- Catalogue 1: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Caligula -- Catalogue 2: The Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Nero -- Catalogue 3: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Julio-Claudians -- Catalogue 4: The Mutilated and Altered Portraits of A.D. 69 -- Catalogue 5: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Domitian -- Catalogue 6: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of Commodus, Livilla, Crispina and Annia Fundian Faustina -- Catalogue 7: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Severans. Plautilla, Geta, Macrinus, Diadumenianus, Elagabalus, Severus Alexander and Julia Mammaea -- Catalogue 8: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Third Century -- Catalogue 9: Mutilated and Altered Portraits of the Fourth Century.

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"From the late first century B.C. until the fourth-century A.D., the recycling and destruction of images of emperors, empresses, and other members of the imperial family occurred on a vast scale and often marked periods of violent political transition. This volume catalogues and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for damnatio memoriae and ultimately reveals its praxis to be at the core of Roman cultural identity."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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