Search for dissertations about: "Antikens Rom"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Antikens Rom.
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1. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture
Abstract : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. READ MORE
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2. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession
Abstract : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. READ MORE
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3. The Argolid under Roman rule (31 BC - AD 600)
Abstract : This study focuses on the region of Argolid in the eastern part of the Greek Peloponnese during the Roman Imperial era, taking up a variety of aspects of life there based mainly on archaeological evidence. The introduction presents the study area and the background to the study. READ MORE
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4. The Late etruscan votive heads from Tessennano. A study of production, distribution and sociohistorical context
Abstract : The Late etruscan terracotta votive heads from Tessennano were found near a rural sanctuary about a hundred km to the North of Rome in 1956. Whereas the facial fronts are serially produced with moulds, the backs are handmade. READ MORE
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5. The tomb of Caecilia Metella: tumulus, tropaeum and thymele
Abstract : The present thesis constitutes a close study of a single architectural monument, the tomb of Caecilia Metella. This is a well-preserved cylindrical tomb situated on the Via Appia outside Rome, and it is generally associated with sepulchral buildings of the traditional tumulus type. READ MORE