Spolia Oceani. Note sull’iconografia oceanica a margine della ricerca di Sara Santoro

(2018) Multa per aequora. Il polisemico significato della moderna ricerca archeologica. Omaggio a Sara Santoro, vol. 2 — ISBN: [978-2-87558-691-9], p. 689-710, published

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This paper aims at being a follow-up and an update for the iconographic research on the image of Oceanus in Roman art, that was the subject of two papers published by Sara Santoro, in long-past years. Being her iconographic and iconological analysis still valid, the main goal of this paper is to discuss how the meaning of Oceanus, while maintaining a strong propagandistic connotation for the imperial power, was calibrated and modified trough the time, according to specific circumstances and precise political choices.
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Cavalieri, M. (2018). Spolia Oceani. Note sull’iconografia oceanica a margine della ricerca di Sara Santoro. In Marco Cavalieri (ed.), Multa per aequora. Il polisemico significato della moderna ricerca archeologica. Omaggio a Sara Santoro, vol. 2 (p. p. 689-710). Presses Universitaires de Louvain. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224629