CLST 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Prima Porta, Palmyrene Empire, Gallic Empire
14 May 2015
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But in terms of properly restabilizing everything creating a new viable empire going forward its dicoletian whos gonna do that. We call him dicoletian woulda been called dicoletanius. Porph is a purple stone reserved for emperors empresses and that class of people. He has his statues made in marble but he shared the marble with everyone in the city so augustus as we no remade the city of rome in marble everyone was getting the benefit of it. Porph is reserved for just the emperors so having this purple stateu is not something that common people could do just the class of raw material sets it out as dif and special. Augustus of prima porta (compared with the 4 person statue of diocletian: peace and prosperity negotiation between two states, gods supporting peace, etc. Nothing about war here he is wearing a breastplate but it is symbolic: done in the classical model stays a young man forever.
