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Historia@Teoria
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2018
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vol. 1
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issue 7
19-35
EN
The project Myths and Idols, by the French photographer Travis Durden, came into being in 2015 by means of digital technology. The artist processed photos of nine selected modern sculptures, mostly related to ancient matters, in order to provide them with the attributes or heads belonging to the heroes of the famous Star Wars saga. The sculptures chosen by Durden for his project had been created by European artists (French sculptors and one Italian master) and they are exclusively of an early modern provenance (arising from the Renaissance, Classicism, and Neoclassicism). Not a single work of ancient art is included. However, the classical (ancient) art itself became an object of the Parisian sculptor’s interest in terms of taking early modern art into account as the artists of the latter patterned themselves on ancient samples and picked up ancient subject matters. Likewise, Star Wars in turn constitutes a product of the American pop- culture frequently referring to motifs which had originated in ancient culture. The article discusses all nine photo collages and the whole project is being interpreted. Myths and Idols offers an example of the double reception of ancient culture – the early modern and contemporary ones.
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One of the forms of expression of the Roman ideology of victory in the Principate was a triumph (triumphus curulis), during which barbaric captives, often of a high political status, were exposed. According to the tradition, they should have been put to death during the triumph, which was of ritual and symbolic significance. The analyzed examples of the most prominent foreign captives from the late Republic and Principate show that sentencing the captives to death was much less frequent in the Principate. Thanks to mercy (clementia) shown by the emperors, captives frequently saved their lives. They did not reject an offered chance for further life in the Roman Empire, and they often asked for it. Such an attitude did not have to mean giving up personal dignity. Romans allowed them to function normally in the Roman Empire, to educate, obtain Roman citizenship, further develop according to individual characteristics, and be promoted socially and politically.
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Jednym ze środków wyrazu rzymskiej ideologii zwycięstwa epoki pryncypatu był triumf (łac. triumphus curulis), w trakcie którego eksponowani byli jeńcy barbarzyńscy, nierzadko o wysokim statusie politycznym. Według tradycji powinni oni ponieść śmierć podczas triumfu, co miało znaczenie rytualne i symboliczne. Przeanalizowane przykłady najznamienitszych jeńców obcego pochodzenia z końca republiki i okresu pryncypatu dowodzą, że częściej aniżeli za republiki rezygnowano w epoce pryncypatu ze skazywania ich na śmierć. Dzięki łasce (łac. clementia) okazywanej przez cesarzy jeńcy często zachowywali życie. Nie tylko nie odrzucali oferowanej im szansy na dalsze życie w państwie rzymskim, ale nierzadko sami o nią prosili. Taka postawa nie musiała oznaczać rezygnacji z godności osobistej. Rzymianie umożliwiali im normalne funkcjonowanie w państwie rzymskim, edukację, zdobycie obywatelstwa rzymskiego, dalszy rozwój zgodnie z indywidualnymi predyspozycjami, awans społeczny i polityczny.
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