i confess to being an astric reader, in having my dominant sense of caesar is from the astrics and graphic novels. But what you're describing is like a kind of classical game of guesso. T what do they have? Wrinkles on the neckd is? Is that julius caesar? Won't kno, we just talking about astrics. And youar alking about kenneth williams. Maybe our we can talk about the next images, because part of the argument of your book is how the roman images of various caesars endure. You know, it's very perilous, really, to put a name on them
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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