Abstract

This article pays close attention to one aspect of the famous battle of images between Mark Antony and Octavian in the build-up to Actium. It challenges the common assumption that the figures of Hercules and Omphale were purposefully portrayed as Octavian ‘anti-propaganda’&Mac226; against Mark Antony and Cleopatra, displaying the triumvir as emasculated by the Egyptian Queen. The link between Hercules and Antony was tenuous, especially in his later career, and there is little evidence that the mythological scene had propagandistic connotations. With this in mind, it seems that a political reading of the images is stretching the evidence too far.

Conrad M. Stibbe
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A Survey of Laconian Bronze Hydriae

R. de Zwarte
Pythagoras’ Inheritance at Paestum in South Italy — view the abstract
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L.B. van der Meer
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Julie van Kerckhove
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Christoph Ohlig
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Boaz Zissu and Amir Ganor
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Ans Braakenburg-van Breukelen
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Mark Hirst and Gina Salapata
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Richard de Kind
Pertinax oder Didius Julianus?
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