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J.J. Pollitt’s Art in the Hellenistic Age, Chapter 1: Royal Iconography
Alex the Great was the first, but certainly not the last, ruler to have an official “look” that he had replicated through sculptures and coins and distributed throughout the empire.
Moving on from Alex the Great: Roman emperors very much adopted the genre of royal iconography in order to cement their power. Next, we will consider an example of Augustus’s use of iconography, and finally, the emperor under whom the Roman Empire reached its largest extent, Trajan.