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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. A compelling study of the use of public spectacle in the Mediterranean world between the fifth and first centuries BC, arguing that appearances mattered greatly in determining relations of power in ancient cities.
Full Description
This study of the visible representation of power and prestige in both Greek and Roman polities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance. The spectacular rhetorics of a variety of individuals, from early Greece until the end of the Roman Republic, are considered, including Alcibiades, Demetrius Poliorcetes, the early Ptolemies, Antiochus IV, Pompey, Cicero, and Caesar. Great men sought visible pre-eminence and their methods and success reveal a great deal about the habits and values of their civic societies.
Contents
1. Looking at the Powerful ; 2. Looking at Caesar ; 3. The Affections of the Athenians ; 4. Kings and Elephants ; 5. Elephants and Citizens ; 6. Ciceronian Consensus ; Afterword