To serve the Empire: Roman eagle as a divine messenger and guardian of majesty of the first Roman Emperor, and guardian of majesty of the first ...
To serve the Empire: Roman eagle as a divine messenger and guardian of majesty of the first Roman Emperor, and guardian of majesty of the first ...

Summary/Abstract: The presented paper focuses on comprehending the symbolism, variety and scale of the eagle’s image implementation in art and broadly named culture of ancient Rome of the Augustan age (ca. 27 B.C.-14 A.D.). Both literary, numismatical, as well as gemmoglyptical evidence are examined, in our att empt to bett er understand the ideological notion of the fawn bird’s image in the ancient times.

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