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In this programme Dr. Richard Reece places in context the portraits of the Emperor Augustus which have survived on coins and as busts. He discusses the development of portraiture from the idealized... representations of Alexander the Great, which were put on coins only after his death, through to the realistic portraits of Julius Caesar, who was the first Roman to be allowed to put his own living portrait on the coins. Following this precedent, Augustus and his sucessors used the coinage as an important tool of propaganda, and Augustis himself developed a stylised imperial image for his coin portraits which remained substantially unchanged for many years.
In this programme Dr. Richard Reece places in context the portraits of the Emperor Augustus which have survived on coins and as busts. He discusses the development of portraiture from the idealized... representations of Alexander the Great, which were put on coins only after his death, through to the realistic portraits of Julius Caesar, who was the first Roman to be allowed to put his own living portrait on the coins. Following this precedent, Augustus and his sucessors used the coinage as an important tool of propaganda, and Augustis himself developed a stylised imperial image for his coin portraits which remained substantially unchanged for many years.
| Module code and title: | A293, Rome: the Augustan age |
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| Item code: | A293; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 17-05-1982 |
| Published: | 1982 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:26 |
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| Producer: | Robert Philip |
| Contributor: | Richard Reece |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Alexander the Great; Augustus; Coins; Rome |
| Master spool number: | HOU3974 |
| Production number: | FOUA108L |
| Videofinder number: | 2561 |
| Available to public: | no |
