Open AccessIdeology Connected to Death and Deification of the August. The ‘Double’ Body of the Emperor: an Alleged Attempt to Overcome
Author(s) -
Antonio Pío Di Cosmo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nova tellus/nova tellus (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2683-1759
pISSN - 0185-3058
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.nt.2021.39.1.27547
Subject(s) - emperor , ideology , witness , rhetoric , rhetorical question , iconography , literature , subject (documents) , history , philosophy , aesthetics , art , law , politics , ancient history , art history , political science , theology , linguistics , computer science , library science
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.