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Hardcover Private Lives, Imperial Virtues: The Frieze of the Forum Transitorium in Rome Book

ISBN: 0691040974

ISBN13: 9780691040974

Private Lives, Imperial Virtues: The Frieze of the Forum Transitorium in Rome

The depiction of the myth of Arachne, a woman punished for defiantly challenging Minerva to a weaving contest, is a subject without parallel for the frieze of a state monument such as Rome's Forum Transitorium, built by Domitian in the first century A.D. In this new interpretation of the frieze, Eve D'Ambra examines how art depicting mythological themes served as an instrument of social policy in the Roman Empire. She proposes that the portrayal of...

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