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English summary: Epigrams, passing remarks, and treatises dealing with the chariot races in the Roman circus and their participants have been handed down by numerous ancient authors. Whether described by Pliny, Martial, Juvenal, Ammianus Marcellinus, or Tertullian, charioteers are frequently viewed in a derogatory light, since they were mostly slaves and freedmen who were able to achieve enormous popularity and financial wealth as a result of their celebrated activities - much to the disapproval of the authors, most of whom came from the senatorial class. The literary tradition is only one side of the coin, however, for representations of charioteers and chariot races have survived in significantly greater numbers. There seems to be no pictorial medium in the Roman imperial period that failed to thematize circus charioteers: whether on a millimeter-sized gem or on a room-filling mosaic, whether in the context of a house, within a tomb, or in an urban space - images of the races and the drivers were encountered almost everywhere by their ancient contemporaries. This extensive corpus of material, which dates from the late 1st century BC to the late 4th century AD, is presented in its entirety here for the first time. The iconographic analysis of the very disparate images is realized by taking into account the respective medial conditions of the image carriers. This approach allows us to distinguish between the media conventions of these representations - for example, what distinguishes the representation of a race in a tomb from that in a house? Central questions taken up in this book, then, concern the representation and evaluation of the drivers in the picture, how the representations were used, and which symbolic as well as metaphorical associations they contained. Moreover, the analysis of the material as a collective allows for the identification of specific focal points in the (self-)staging of charioteers in the Roman Imperial period and early Late Antiquity: Here, the focus is especially on their representation as victors and the use of the races as a mourning formula in a funerary context. Publications by international researchers over the past several decades testify to the unbroken interest in both the races and the charioteers. The present work now fills in a gap in their documentation: instead of focusing on isolated images that are particularly well known because of their quality or state of preservation, access to the entire diversity of circus images is now possible. The chariot races, as probably the most visited and most important spectaculum of the Roman world, are thus documented at once comprehensively and in detail. German description: Ob Plinius, Martial, Juvenal oder Ammianus Marcellinus und Tertullian: Von zahlreichen antiken Autoren sind Epigramme, Bemerkungen oder Traktate uberliefert, die sich mit den Wagenrennen im romischen Circus und ihren Akteuren befassen. Vor allem letztere werden dabei oft abwertend betrachtet, handelte es sich doch meist um Sklaven und Freigelassene, die aufgrund ihrer umjubelten Tatigkeit eine enorme Popularitat und grossen Reichtum erlangen konnten - sehr zum Missfallen der meist aus dem Senatorenstand stammenden Autoren. Die literarische Uberlieferung ist jedoch nur eine Seite der Medaille. Denn in bedeutend grosserer Zahl haben sich Darstellungen von Wagenlenkern und -rennen erhalten. Es scheint kaum ein Bildmedium der romischen Kaiserzeit zu geben, das nicht auch Darstellungen circensischer Wagenlenker thematisierte: Ob auf einer millimetergrossen Gemme oder auf einem raumfullenden Mosaik, ob im Hauskontext, am und im Grab oder im Stadtraum - Bilder der Rennen und der Fahrer begegneten den antiken Zeitgenossen fast uberall. Dieses umfangreiche Materialkorpus wird nun erstmals fur den Zeitraum vom spaten 1. Jh. v. Chr. bis in das ausgehende 4. Jh. n. Chr. in seiner ganzen Breite vorgestellt. Die ikonographische Analyse der sehr disparaten Bilder erfolgt unter Berucksichtigung der jeweiligen medialen Eigenschaften der Bildtrager. Dies erlaubt nach medialen Darstellungskonventionen zu fragen - was etwa unterscheidet die Darstellung eines Rennens im Grab von jener in einem Haus? Zentrale Fragen der Arbeit sind uberdies solche nach der Darstellung und Bewertung der Fahrer im Bild, wie die Darstellungen genutzt wurden und welche symbolischen sowie metaphorischen Implikationen sie bargen. Der Zugriff auf das gesammelte Material erlaubt daruber hinaus spezifische Schwerpunktsetzungen in der (Selbst-)Inszenierung der Wagenlenker in der romischen Kaiserzeit und fruhen Spatantike: Hier steht insbesondere ihre Darstellung als Sieger und die Nutzung des Bildthemas als Trauerformel am Grab im Fokus. Die Publikationstatigkeit der vergangenen Jahre zeugt vom ungebrochenen Interesse der internationalen Forschung sowohl an den Rennen als auch an den Fahrern. Mit vorliegender Arbeit wird nun eine empfindliche Dokumentationslucke geschlossen: Statt auf vereinzelte Bilder, die wegen ihrer Qualitat oder ihres Erhaltungszustandes besonders bekannt sind, ist nun der Zugriff auf die gesamte Vielfalt der Circus-Bilder moglich. Die Wagenrennen, als das wohl meistbesuchte und bedeutendste spectaculum der romischen Welt, sind damit umfassend und detailliert dokumentiert.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783954905218
  • Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag
  • ISBN-10: 3954905213
  • Publisher Date: 06 Apr 2021


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