The Mistress of the Beasts and Her Humpbacked Bulls: New Considerations About the Breeding of Sacrificial Animals and Roman Trade with India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Preface IX
4. Contents XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Portraiture and Honorific Statuary
7. Look Up! The Roman Fornix as an Architectural Solution to Problems of Honorific Display 11
8. An Amber Augustus at Olympia 31
9. Tiberius in the Michael C. Carlos Museum: A Portrait Masterpiece 41
10. The Priest’s Tale 57
11. Intellectualizing Images? Private Male Portraits and the Second Sophistic in Rome 79
12. Part II: Gods, Myths, and Ritual Practice
13. Peleus and the φθόνος θεῶν 97
14. Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros and an Inscription at the Établissement of the Poseidoniastai of Berytos: Internationalism in the Cult Sanctuaries of Delos 111
15. The Judgement of Orestes and the Agamemnonidae: Some Observations on Transmission and Transformation in Roman Art 131
16. Amazons at Herculaneum 153
17. Spectacle and Society: Mythological Wall Paintings in the Tablinum of Houses at Pompeii and Herculaneum 169
18. The Mistress of the Beasts and Her Humpbacked Bulls: New Considerations About the Breeding of Sacrificial Animals and Roman Trade with India 189
19. Part III: The Rhetoric of Empire
20. Roman Power and Greek Sanctuaries: Two Studies 209
21. The Mausoleum of Augustus and Etruscan Precedents for Roman Renewal 223
22. The Phasing and Design of the Calendrical Device (“Horologium”) of Augustus 243
23. Aeneas and Romulus in the Forum of Augusta Emerita (Hispania) 263
24. New Evidence for the Forum Marsyas Statue Type 281
25. Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Griffins and the Phoenix in Visual Panegyric 299
26. Part IV: Craft, Practice, and Production
27. Death and the Maiden: Meditations on a Kylix by the Brygos Painter 319
28. Hellenistic Gold and Silver Luxury Tableware as a Legacy of Roman Spoils of War 339
29. Metallurgical Innovations at the Time of Julius Caesar and Augustus 359
30. Portrait of a Medical Practice: The Marcianopolis Instrumentarium 379
31. Part V: After Antiquity: Restoration, Forgery, Reception
32. The Capitoline Lion Attacking a Horse—An Icon of Feline-Equine Combat 399
33. Gnaios: In Search of an Artistic Personality 421
34. “Time is Truly Forgetful”: The Black Stones in Early Modern Rome 441
35. Finding the Particular: On the Ancient Portrait in the History of Scholarship 463
36. A Late Republican Statue from Rome and Its Transformation 479
37. A Putative Second Century CE Roman Sarcophagus in Los Angeles: The Dynamics of Establishing a Fake 489
38. Experts: The Story behind a Forged Roman Sarcophagus 511
39. List of Contributors 531
40. Index 533