Roman: Imperial Monuments

This Bibliography is still being completed, but has a number of good sources on various topics in Roman art and archaeology.

Republican Rome

Flower, H.I. 1996. Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture. (Esp. chs. 3 & 7) (Available at GMU)

*Hannestad, N. 1986. Roman Art and Imperial Policy. (Available at LoC)

Kleiner, D.E.E. 1992. Roman Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Strong, D.E. 1976. Roman Art. Harmondsworth and Baltimore : Penguin. (Available at NOVA)

Torelli, M. 1982. Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs. (Available at GMU)

Zanker, P. 1988/1990. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. (Available at NOVA)

Meaning of propaganda

Charlesworth, M.P. 1937. “The Virtues of a Roman Emperor: Propaganda and the Creation of Belief.” Proceedings of the British Academy 123: 103-133. (Available at GMU)

Evans, J. 1992. The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus. (Ch. 1) (Available at GMU DG82.E92 1992)

Habinek, T. and A. Schiesavo. 1997. The Roman Cultural Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Available at GMU DG279.R618 1997)

Period of Augustus

D'Ambra, E. 1993. Roman Art in Context: An Anthology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (Available at NOVA) (Collects a number of important articles on various subject in Roman art into a single anthology - reprinting some with revisions and comments)

Bartman, E. 1990. “Art in the age of Augustus: two recent books.” JRA 3: . (Available at GMU)

Galinsky, K. 1996. Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction. Princeton, N.J.: University Press. (Available at NOVA, GMU)

Kuttner, A. 1995. Dynasty and Empire in the Age of Augustus: the case of the Boscoreale cups. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Available at GMU)

Sutherland, C. H.V. 1951. Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy, 31 B.C. - A.D. 68. London: Methuen. (Ch. 2-4) (Available at GMU)

Wallace-Hadrill, A. 1993. Augustan Rome. London: Bristol Classical. (Available at Georgetown)

Zanker, P. 1988/1990. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. (Available at NOVA)

The City of Rome under Augustus

Elsner, J. 1996. “Inventing imperium: texts and propaganda of monuments in Augustan Rome.” Ch. 2 in J. Elsner ed. Art and Text in Roman Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Available at GMU)

Favro, D. 1996. The Urban Image of Augustan Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Available at GMU)

Kellum, B. 1997. “Concealing / revealing: gender and the play of meaning in the monuments of Augustan Rome.” Ch. 9 in T. Habinek and A. Schiesaro, eds. The Roman Cultural Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Available at GMU)

Walker, S. 2000. “Augustus and the city of Rome.” In J. Coulston and H. Dodge, eds. Ancient Rome: The Archaeology of the Eternal City. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology. (Available at LoC)

On the Imperial cult