The Emperor and Rome

Björn C. Ewald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. His previous publications include Der Philosoph als Leitbild. Ikonographische Untersuchungen an römischen Sarkophagreliefs (1999) and (with Paul Zanker) Mit Mythen leben. Die Bilderwelt der roemischen Sarkophagreliefs (2004). Carlos F. Noreña is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of a number of articles on aspects of Roman imperial history.

• Introduction Björn C. Ewald and Carlos F. Noreña; 1. By the emperor, for the people: 'popular' architecture in Rome Paul Zanker; 2. The emperor and senatorial aristocracy in competition for public space Werner Eck; 3. Propaganda, staged applause, or local politics? Public monuments from Augustus to Septimius Severus Emanuel Mayer; 4. Pompey's Theater and Tiberius' Temple of Concord: a Late Republican primer for an early Imperial patron James E. Packer; 5. Antonine Rome: security in the homeland Mary T. Boatwright; 6. Liberator urbis suae: Constantine and the ghost of Maxentius Elizabeth Marlowe; 7. The portraits of Roman emperors and their families: controversial positions and unresolved problems Klaus Fittschen; 8. Crossing the pomerium: the armed ruler at Rome Michael Koortbojian; 9. How the Emperor Nero lost acceptance in Rome Egon Flaig; 10. The imperial funerary pyre as a work of ephemeral architecture Eve D'Ambra; 11. Roman imperial funerals in effigie Javier Arce.