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Of the roman lions. Moving by sea, assembling to hear their orders building fortifications, raiding an enemy town, and crossing the danube in small boats the army is shown to be an awesome fighting machine. But there is no glorification of war itself, which is necessarily brutal and remorseless. The victory column and the triumphal arch through which the retuturning army marched dragging slaves and spoils of war, were forceful forms of propaganda for the righteousness of imperial power, guided b...

And members of the imperial family. This is to roman art what the parthenon frieze is to greek art. A sense of order and serenity pervades the scene. At the head of the procession, between his two consuls, is the damaged but recognizable image of augustus himself dignified, though not yet deified. All the other figures are portraits, too such as augustus daughter julia later banished for immoral conduct and her first husband, augustus minister Marcus Agrippa. Other reliefs celebrate the joy and ...

Which is necessarily brutal and remorseless. The victory column and the triumphal arch through which the retuturning army marched dragging slaves and spoils of war, were forceful forms of propaganda for the righteousness of imperial power, guided by the emperor, the senate and the people of rome. It was the arch that was the basis of a revolutionary new architecture. The post and lintel system of the ancient world was limited in the space it could span and the weight it could bear. The romans so...