Abstract

DI COSMO, Antonio Pio. Ideology Connected to Death and Deification of the August. The ‘Double’ Body of the Emperor: an Alleged Attempt to Overcome. Nova tellus [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.1, pp.131-170.  Epub May 05, 2021. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2021.39.1.27547.

This research focuses on the ideology behind the death rites of a Roman emperor. Here I analyze the inventive rhetorical features concerning the subject as visual culture, loci, descriptive formulas and cultural codes. It refers in particular to literature that concerns the death of the Roman emperor, which is analyzed from the point of view of rhetoric and iconography. So I find a fiction or a dubious “reality”, through introducing a witness who confirms the veracity of deification.

Keywords : Death; funus imperatorum; Consecration; ‘Double’ Body; Augustus.

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