i wanted to remind us all what a roman peror, even if caesar is half an emperor, julius caesa almost an emperor, what does a roman emperor look like? And then i think that for me, these two guys, one on the left, recently found in al the other, probably a fake, actually, from the british museum, they sort of sum up what what the face of romea ower looks like. But this, too is, this pair are very interesting, because, as i said, the one on the right is thought to be a fake. The one on theleft is just rediscovered in the last
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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