Mutilation and Transformation : Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Developments, Implications, and Precedents -- Chapter Two: Caligula, Milonia Ceasonia and Julia Drusilla -- Chapter Three: Neor and Poppaea -- Chapter Four: Other Julio-Claudians -- Chapter Five: A.D. 69 -- Chapter Six: Domitian -- Chapter Seven: Commodus, Lucilla, Crispina and Annia Fundania Faustina -- Chapter Eight: The Severans A.D. 193-235 -- Chapter Nine: The Later Third Century (235-285) -- Chapter Ten: 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 -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Museums and Collections -- General Index -- List of Illustrations and Photo Credits -- Illustrations 1-215.

The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. 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.

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