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Chapter 4 - Wonder Tales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Panayiotis Christoforou
Panayiotis Christoforou
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University of Oxford
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This chapter outlines the emperor as a figure of wonder and monstrosity. The power of the Roman emperor and empire sought the curation of weird and wonderful things from across the empire and beyond. Such wonders and monstrosities were brought to Rome for public display, which coloured how the emperor himself was perceived in literature that ranges from biography and historiography to paradoxography. The emperor as a figure of enormous power and as a monster comes into full focus.

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Imagining the Roman Emperor
Perceptions of Rulers in the High Empire
 , pp. 131 - 159
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Wonder Tales
  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book: Imagining the Roman Emperor
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009362504.006
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  • Wonder Tales
  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book: Imagining the Roman Emperor
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009362504.006
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  • Wonder Tales
  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book: Imagining the Roman Emperor
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009362504.006
Available formats
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