Representing Agrippina : constructions of female power in the early Roman Empire /
Provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. This study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes a...
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التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
منشور في: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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سلاسل: | American classical studies ;
no. 50. |
الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=151487 |
الملخص: | Provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. This study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes and negative depictions aimed to undermine it. |
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وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (146 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical table |
بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index. |
ردمك: | 1423762002 9781423762003 9780195346152 0195346157 9780195181418 0195181417 |