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100 1 $aFlower, Harriet I.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96034170
245 10 $aAncestor masks and aristocratic power in Roman culture /$cHarriet I. Flower.
260 $aOxford :$bClarendon Press,$c1996.
300 $axvii, 411 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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500 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Pennsylvania, 1993) presented under the title: Imagines Maiorum: ancestral masks as symbols of ideology and power.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Significance of Imagines --$g2.$tDefining the Imagines? --$g3.$tAncestors at the Elections: Ancestral Portraits and Magisterial Office --$g4.$tAncestors at the Funeral: The Pompa Funebris --$g5.$tPraising the Ancestors: Laudationes and other Orations --$g6.$tAncestors and Inscriptions: Elogia and Tituli --$g7.$tAncestors at Home: Imagines in the Atrium --$g8.$tImagines and the New Principate: Augustus and Tiberius --$g9.$tImagines in the Later Empire: The Last Imagines --$g10.$tConclusions --$gApp. A.$tLiterary Testimonia --$gApp. B.$tInscriptions and Laws --$gApp. C.$tMoneyers using Ancestral Themes on their Coins --$gApp. D.$tEtruscan Statues of Ancestors and the Origins of the Imagines --$gApp. E.$tTrees of the Caecilii Metelli, Cornelii Scipiones, and Augustus' Family.
520 $aIn the first comprehensive study of Roman ancestor masks in English, Harriet Flower explains the reasons behind the use of wax masks in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome.
520 8 $aFlower traces the functional evolution of ancestor masks, from their first attested appearance in the third century BC to their last mention in the sixth century AD, through the examination of literary sources in both prose and verse, legal texts, epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics, and art.
520 8 $aIt is by putting these masks, which were worn by actors at the funerals of the deceased, into their legal, social, and political context that Flower is able to elucidate their central position in the media of the time and their special meaning as symbols of power and prestige.
650 0 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zRome.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001688
650 0 $aMasks$zRome.
650 0 $aNobility$zRome.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103103
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zRome.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences)$zRome.
852 00 $bglx$hDG103$i.F56 1996