i think we often imagine the modern science, or modern studies of ancient portraiture will make it easier to identify these guys. We're probably more gullable than people in the past were. The great arthistorian vencoman thought that you'd never be able reallyto find a real authentic julius caesar because all your doing is kind of matching things up to coins. But i'm always trying to refind that in ancient lelobe. And that's what people were doing in the sixteenth century and the eighteenth century. I have to say, let's be honest, is built on io kenneth williams, incarioncleo, plus
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Mary Beard, Britain’s best known classicist, came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the ideas in her new book Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern.
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