Trajan's Column

F. A. Lepper (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

406 Seiten

2016
Fonthill Media Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78155-403-6 (ISBN)

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Since the beginning of the twentieth century study of the reliefs on Trajan's Column's has been greatly facilitated by Cichorius's publication of photogravure plates. This detailed study by two leading experts provides fascinating additional detail to the Dacian Wars so graphically depicted on the Column.

Trajan's column is surely the most famous Roman monument in the world, appreciated for very different reasons by historians, archaeologists, art historians and the general public. In recent years much concern has been expressed about the effects on the column of modern pollution, but more than a century ago casts were made of the entire column for Napoleon III, and , at the beginning of the century, photographs of these casts were published by Conrad Cichorius. They form an essential record for the students of today, but are now very difficult to come by. First published in 1988 and here extensively revised, this book re-publishes Cichorius's Plates (the complete series) and supplies in addition a new and detailed introduction, a full Commentary on all the reliefs, and some twenty-six specialised notes dealing with the design of the column, the chronological, archaeological and topographical problems affecting its interpretation and our understanding of those wars. This is the most comprehensive and best illustrated book on the Column yet written.

Frank Lepper was formerly Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.Sheppard Frere was formerly Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Oxford

COMMENTARY PART I, The First War, Casts 1-206, (Scenes i-lxxviii); COMMENTARY PART II, The Second War, Casts 207-414, (Scenes lxxix-clv); NOTES; PART ONE: The Column and its Setting; A 1 Apollodorus of Damascus; A 2 The Column and the Coinage; A 3 'Templum Divi Traiani'; A 4 The Inscription on the Base; A 5 The Originality of the Column; PART TWO: Some Sources; B 1 The Dio Account; B 2 Xiphilinus; B 3 Trajan and Caesar; PART THREE: Chronology; C 1 Trajan's Titulature; C 2 Brick-stamps and Mouldings; C 3 The dates of Trajan's Dacian Wars; C 4 The date of 'Hunt's Pridianum'; PART FOUR: Archaeology and the Column; D 1 Roman Camps and Forts; D 2 Roman Military Equipment; D 3 Dacian Fortifications; D 4 Dacian Arms and Equipment; PART FIVE: The Subject-matter of the Reliefs; E 1 Portraits on the Column; E 2 The Causes of Trajan's Dacian Wars; E 3 The Case for Premeditation; E 4 Trajan's Invasion Armies; E 5 Adamclisi; E 6 Sarmizegethusa; PART SIX: Aftermath; F 1 The Frontier after the Wars; F 2 The Province of Dacia; F 3 Behind the Line; F 4 Time and the Column.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2016
Verlagsort	Toadsmoor Road
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-78155-403-X / 178155403X
ISBN-13	978-1-78155-403-6 / 9781781554036
Zustand	Neuware