Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire

by Julia C. Fischer

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships.

Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire offers a feminist theory that explains why large Imperial cameos were in dialogue and why the medium appears with Octavian and disappears by the Flavian dynasty: female...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032324880
• ISBN13: 9781032324883
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages