Michael Koortbojian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Koortbojian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Koortbojian |
| SIGNATURE | KOORTBOJIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crossing the Pomerium
Crossing the Pomerium
This chapter explores the act of “crossing the pomerium” and how the distinction the pomerium created did not always correspond with lived realities. Although Republican Rome distinguished the urbs both legally and religiously from what lay beyond the pomerium, its fundamental boundary, the disintegration of this essential division was merely one of the many Republican traditions whose demise would gradually define the advent of empire. Here, the…
Constantine’s Arch and His Military Image at Rome
This chapter analyzes the Arch of Constantine in Rome. First, it focuses on the roles of the SPQR and the emperor in the arch's design. In particular, the chapter deals with Constantine's role, or his conception of his role in the urbs, in the arch's imagery. Second, this chapter examines the meaning of the claim triumphis insignem —that is, that an arch, still customarily associated with triumph by the fourth century, was in this instance bestow…
Roman Sacrifice and the Ritus Militaris
This chapter concerns Roman sacrifice. Sacrifice was only one of many attested Roman rituals, but it is arguably the one whose imagery was most ubiquitous throughout the Roman world. This imagery is known in virtually all of the artistic media—at every possible scale, from the minuscule to the monumental, in many varied contexts, both public and private—and its use extended from the center of the urbs to every corner of Rome's imperium. Most, if …
Octavian’s Imperium Auspiciumque in 43 BC and Their Late Republican Context
This chapter examines how, by late Republican times, commanders who would have been forced by religious scruple to return to Rome for the reenactment of religious rites were now granted new dispensation, often in the form of political and religious “fictions” that would accommodate new priorities with new protocols. Here, the chapter focuses on Octavian's rise to power. It considers how Octavian's status was different from that of elected magistr…
Crossing the Pomerium
The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium , an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion…
Pompeii in Washington
A Painted Exemplum at Rome's Temple of Liberty
In 214 b.c. , the army of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus defeated Hannibal's Carthaginian forces near the town of Beneventum. Gracchus, proconsul with imperium in Apulia, had led his troops from Luceria in the North-East, while Hanno, Hannibal's lieutenant, arrived with his forces from Bruttium in the South, and a pitched battle was fought by the river Calor. The Romans were victorious. According to Livy, the Carthaginian force of more than 18,000 was r…
A collection of inscriptions for Lorenzo de' Medici. Two dedicatory letters from Fra Giovanni Giocondo
UNA RACCOLTA DI ISCRIZIONI PER LORENZO DE' MEDICI. DUE LETTERE DEDICATORIE DI FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO: INTRODUZIONE, TESTO E TRADUZIONE Nel 1489, Fra Giovanni Giocondo dedicò due volumi della sua collezione di iscrizioni antiche a Lorenzo de' Medici. Questo articolo presenta le lettere dedicatorie insieme ad una traduzione e ad un saggio introduttivo che colloca questi documenti nel loro contesto storico
Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi
This study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art examines two myths (Aphrodite and Adonis, Selene and Endymion) not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the greater fabric of Roman life. Moving beyond the examination of these sarcophagi as artistic achievements, the book sets them in their broader historical and social contexts. Remembrance was an important fa…
The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art
David Castriota examines one of the most important monuments of early Roman Imperial art, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the sculptured marble altar built to celebrate the peace, prosperity, and stability initiated by the reign of Augustus in the later first century B.C. Castriota argues that the floral decoration of the altar enclosure was profoundly significant, operating as a visual counterpart to the technique of metonymy in language. It utilised an…
Myth, Meaning and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi
Documentary values
Documentary Culture. Florence and Rome from Grand‐Duke Ferdinand I to Pope Alexander VII . Papers from a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence, 1990 [= Villa Spelman Colloquia, Volume 3] edited by E. Cropper, G. Perini, F. Solinas , with an introduction by E. Cropper , Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, distributed by the John Hopkins University Press, 1992, 406 pp., 195 b. & w. illus., £34.00
Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi
This study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art examines two myths (Aphrodite and Adonis, Selene and Endymion) not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the greater fabric of Roman life. Moving beyond the examination of these sarcophagi as artistic achievements, the book sets them in their broader historical and social contexts. Remembrance was an important fa…
The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art
David Castriota examines one of the most important monuments of early Roman Imperial art, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the sculptured marble altar built to celebrate the peace, prosperity, and stability initiated by the reign of Augustus in the later first century B.C. Castriota argues that the floral decoration of the altar enclosure was profoundly significant, operating as a visual counterpart to the technique of metonymy in language. It utilised an…
Crossing the Pomerium
The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium , an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion…
Documentary values
Documentary Culture. Florence and Rome from Grand‐Duke Ferdinand I to Pope Alexander VII . Papers from a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence, 1990 [= Villa Spelman Colloquia, Volume 3] edited by E. Cropper, G. Perini, F. Solinas , with an introduction by E. Cropper , Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, distributed by the John Hopkins University Press, 1992, 406 pp., 195 b. & w. illus., £34.00
Myth, Meaning and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi
The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Early Roman Imperial Art
David Castriota examines one of the most important monuments of early Roman Imperial art, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the sculptured marble altar built to celebrate the peace, prosperity, and stability initiated by the reign of Augustus in the later first century B.C. Castriota argues that the floral decoration of the altar enclosure was profoundly significant, operating as a visual counterpart to the technique of metonymy in language. It utilised an…
Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi
This study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art examines two myths (Aphrodite and Adonis, Selene and Endymion) not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the greater fabric of Roman life. Moving beyond the examination of these sarcophagi as artistic achievements, the book sets them in their broader historical and social contexts. Remembrance was an important fa…
A Painted Exemplum at Rome's Temple of Liberty
In 214 b.c. , the army of Ti. Sempronius Gracchus defeated Hannibal's Carthaginian forces near the town of Beneventum. Gracchus, proconsul with imperium in Apulia, had led his troops from Luceria in the North-East, while Hanno, Hannibal's lieutenant, arrived with his forces from Bruttium in the South, and a pitched battle was fought by the river Calor. The Romans were victorious. According to Livy, the Carthaginian force of more than 18,000 was r…
A collection of inscriptions for Lorenzo de' Medici. Two dedicatory letters from Fra Giovanni Giocondo
UNA RACCOLTA DI ISCRIZIONI PER LORENZO DE' MEDICI. DUE LETTERE DEDICATORIE DI FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO: INTRODUZIONE, TESTO E TRADUZIONE Nel 1489, Fra Giovanni Giocondo dedicò due volumi della sua collezione di iscrizioni antiche a Lorenzo de' Medici. Questo articolo presenta le lettere dedicatorie insieme ad una traduzione e ad un saggio introduttivo che colloca questi documenti nel loro contesto storico
Pompeii in Washington
Crossing the Pomerium
Crossing the Pomerium
This chapter explores the act of “crossing the pomerium” and how the distinction the pomerium created did not always correspond with lived realities. Although Republican Rome distinguished the urbs both legally and religiously from what lay beyond the pomerium, its fundamental boundary, the disintegration of this essential division was merely one of the many Republican traditions whose demise would gradually define the advent of empire. Here, the…
Constantine’s Arch and His Military Image at Rome
This chapter analyzes the Arch of Constantine in Rome. First, it focuses on the roles of the SPQR and the emperor in the arch's design. In particular, the chapter deals with Constantine's role, or his conception of his role in the urbs, in the arch's imagery. Second, this chapter examines the meaning of the claim triumphis insignem —that is, that an arch, still customarily associated with triumph by the fourth century, was in this instance bestow…
Roman Sacrifice and the Ritus Militaris
This chapter concerns Roman sacrifice. Sacrifice was only one of many attested Roman rituals, but it is arguably the one whose imagery was most ubiquitous throughout the Roman world. This imagery is known in virtually all of the artistic media—at every possible scale, from the minuscule to the monumental, in many varied contexts, both public and private—and its use extended from the center of the urbs to every corner of Rome's imperium. Most, if …
Octavian’s Imperium Auspiciumque in 43 BC and Their Late Republican Context
This chapter examines how, by late Republican times, commanders who would have been forced by religious scruple to return to Rome for the reenactment of religious rites were now granted new dispensation, often in the form of political and religious “fictions” that would accommodate new priorities with new protocols. Here, the chapter focuses on Octavian's rise to power. It considers how Octavian's status was different from that of elected magistr…
Crossing the Pomerium
The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium , an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion…
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