Domitia Longina and the Politics of Portraiture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4539211
AutoresEric R Varner (autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume99
Fascículo2
Páginas187-206
Data de publicação1995-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/506339
OpenAlexW2315460805
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas1

A reexamination of the portraits traditionally assigned to Domitia Longina reveals that they can be divided into three distinct types. Type I was created at the time of Domitia's marriage to Domitian in A.D. 70; type II at the time of Domitian's accession in A.D. 81, celebrating Domitia's new position as Augusta and consort of the Dominus et Deus; and type III after Domitian's assassination, honoring Domitia's participation in the plot to kill her husband. The portraits of Domitia attest to her enduring social and political significance

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