Item image: MORELLI, A.L. Madri di uomini e di déi.
Title
Madri di uomini e di dèi
La rappresentazione della maternità attraverso la documentazione numismatica di epoca romana
Authors
Morelli Anna Lina
Publisher
Ante Quem
Year of publication
2009
Language
  • Italian
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Size
17 x 24 x 0.9 cm
Weight
409 g
ISBN
9788878490451
Notes
Roman coinage, as an expression of established authority, represents an extraordinary tool for investigating and defining the role of women in the dynamics of power. Portraits and complex iconographic programs, combined with powerful epigraphic elements, highlight the importance of the dynastic role played by the Augustae. Fertility, or conversely, the inability to provide the emperor with an heir, shaped specific political decisions and contributed to the very image and legitimacy of imperial power.

The analysis of numismatic evidence clearly reveals that the mater was the true protagonist of dynastic continuity, emphasizing, within the ideological framework of the Empire, the close relationship between the mothers of the imperial household and divine mother figures.

Through the unifying theme of motherhood in its broadest sense, intertwined with religious, social, and institutional aspects, the narrative unfolds to reveal the women of the imperial domus who, from the earliest phase of the Augustan Principate through the Tetrarchic period, effectively embodied the legitimacy of power and ensured the continuity of the imperial institution.
Condition
Like new
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