Augusto e il potere delle immagini

I'm such a geek, I actually snapped this up as an undergrad from the graduate course list. A friend said, "you know they only order so many of those for grad students"....I apologize to the grad student who was slower than me and may have missed out. I am addicted to Augustus art...he was such a pro Leggi tutto

Augustus really was a clever little man huh. This book changed the face of Augustan reception and to enjoy Augustan Rome, I now believe it is essential to read this book. It gave me a much more nuanced view of Augustus and the world in which he had created. Every paragraph offered something new and

This is very dense book focused on the use of images during the reign of Augustus as political symbols or propoganda. The author looks at how the art changes over the time of his reign, both in state and private art. My only complaint with that while there are a lot of images in the book (all black

Ay, el Marketing. Ese ente abstracto sobre el que miles de gurús afirman tener todas las respuestas... tan abstractas como sus discursos, todo sea dicho. Pero el marketing, amiguit@s, es más antiguo que el abuelo de Nabucodonosor. El poder de las imágenes, en un mundo que fundamentalmente ha sido si Leggi tutto

ya sé cuál sería mi respuesta si me preguntaran con qué personaje histórico enrollaría 😛 qué listo era el cabrón...

Zanker pulls together so many different Roman media and makes sense of them in the light of the monumental shift that Augustus brought to the Mediterranean world. Images, symbols, and designs that may seem random or meaningless suddenly have significance, communicating a message of peace, stability, Leggi tutto

Най-после я завърших. Много полезна и разкрива аспекти, за които само съм предполагала. I finished it at last. Very useful and shows aspects that I haven't realised.

Por qué tratan así al pobre Ovidio.